<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536243" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maundy Thursday</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the brown hands of a server-lad<br>The silver cross was offered to be kissed.<br>The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad,<br>And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced.<br>(And kissing, kissed the emblem of a creed.)<br>Then mourning women knelt; meek mouths they had,<br>(And kissed the Body of the Christ indeed.)<br>Young children came, with eager lips and glad.<br>(These kissed a silver doll, immensely bright.)<br>Then I, too, knelt before that acolyte.<br>Above the crucifix I bent my head:<br>The Christ was thin, and cold, and very dead:<br>And yet I bowed, yea, kissed - my lips did cling.<br>(I kissed the warm live hand that held the thing.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfred+Owen">Wilfred Owen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536243" data-title="Maundy Thursday de Wilfred Owen" data-description="Between the brown hands of a server-lad The silver cross was offered to be kissed. The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad, And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced. (And kissing, kissed the emblem of a creed.) Then mourning women knelt; meek mouth..."></div> </div> </div>

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