{"id":9148,"date":"2017-03-01T20:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9148"},"modified":"2017-03-01T20:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:13:39","slug":"in-no-strange-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9148","title":{"rendered":"‘In No Strange Land’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Francis
\nFrancis Thompson (1859-1907)<\/em><\/p>\n

On Ash Wednesday,<\/strong> a Lenten poem by Francis Thompson, who also wrote “The Hound of Heaven.” If you pay close attention, you’ll find the inspiration for a famous movie title.<\/p>\n

In No Strange Land<\/strong>
\n“The Kingdom of God is Within You”<\/em><\/p>\n

O world invisible, we view thee,
\nO world intangible, we touch thee,
\nO world unknowable, we know thee,
\nInapprehensible, we clutch thee!<\/p>\n

Does the fish soar to find the ocean,
\nThe eagle plunge to find the air —
\nThat we ask of the stars in motion
\nIf they have rumor of thee there?<\/p>\n

Not where the wheeling systems darken,
\nAnd our benumbed conceiving soars! —
\nThe drift of pinions, would we hearken,
\nBeats at our own clay-shuttered doors.<\/p>\n

The angels keep their ancient places; —
\nTurn but a stone, and start a wing!
\n‘Tis ye, ’tis your estranged faces,
\nThat miss the many-splendored thing.<\/p>\n

But (when so sad thou canst not sadder)
\nCry — and upon thy so sore loss
\nShall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
\nPitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.<\/p>\n

Yea, in the night, my soul, my daughter,
\nCry — clinging Heaven by the hems;
\nAnd lo, Christ walking upon the water
\nNot of Gennesareth, but Thames!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francis Thompson (1859-1907) On Ash Wednesday, a Lenten poem by Francis Thompson, who also wrote “The Hound of Heaven.” If you pay close attention, you’ll find the inspiration for a famous movie title. In No Strange Land “The Kingdom of God is Within You” O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch … Continue reading ‘In No Strange Land’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[20,1008],"class_list":["post-9148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-religion","tag-in-no-strange-land","tag-francis-thompson"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}