Saint Stephen: A Sacred Sonnet

Pray for the executioner

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Saint Stephen

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Dear Stephen, parted have the cloud-winged skies,
And all before, what was, and yet to come,
Has been revealed to your faith-haunted eyes,
A speaking which struck the Sanhedrin dumb:
For Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and he
Who fashioned the tent, their story comprise,
But th…