One only has explored
’The deepmost; but he did not die of it.
Not yet, not yet he died. Our human Lord
Touched the extreme; it is not infinite.
But over the abyss
Of God’s capacity for woe he stayed
One hesitating hour; what gulf was this?
Forsaken he went down, and was afraid.
From “The Crucifixion,” Alice Meynell, in The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, edited by Lord David Cecil. Published by Oxford University Press, London.
Cited in A Lent Sourcebook: The Forty Days (Book Two: Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent to Holy Thursday). Edited by J. Robert Baker, Evelyn Kaehler, Peter Mazar. Liturgy Training Publications Copyright © 1990, Archdiocese of Chicago
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