Through Centuries

Date added: 29/05/2020

THROUGH CENTURIES

From the beginning,

Magi pondered and travelled;

   offered and worshipped.

For the record,

Matthew collected taxes and stories;

   scribed and described.

In the sermon,

Lancelot Andrewes translated and prayed;

   preached for the King.

Through the poem,

T S Eliot essayed and imagined;

   journeyed to Christ.

© Graham Kings, Nourishing Connections (Canterbury Press, 2020).

Commissioned and first published in Andrew Wheeler, Desire of the Nations: The Magi, their journey and the Child (Seimos Press, 2015) and on Covenant January 2016.