Forty Days
A poem by Katherine Middleton*
A journey lasting forty days
through barren country, bare of shoots,
still in the grip of winter's chill,
where plants lie frozen at the roots.
Take us, as days grow longer, and
the sun gains strength to melt the frost,
onward towards Jerusalem,
where one man's death redeemed the lost.
Though all seems dead, the buds break through
and bright Lent lilies nod and wave,
as from the gloom of Lent's dark days
he springs victorious from the grave.
* This Katherine Middleton is different to the one who married into the English Royal family.
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