Poems (Meynell, 1921)/The Fugitive
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THE FUGITIVE
"Nous avons chassé ce Jésus-Christ."
—FRENCH PUBLICIST
YES, from the ingrate heart, the street
Of garrulous tongue, the warm retreat
Within the village and the town;
Not from the lands where ripen brown
A thousand thousand hills of wheat;
Not from the long Burgundian line,
The Southward, sunward range of vine.
Hunted, He never will escape
The flesh, the blood, the sheaf, the grape,
That feed His man—the bread the wine.