selected poems of Arlen Riley Wilson

An Easter Song

  "Quam quaeritis in seplche, O Christicolae?" *

	Ye Christian ladies rejoice with me
	And think of the solace we must be to Him
	As we celebrate  His descent into Hell
	With a hot cross bun
	And His victory over  death
	With a  new hat.
	Let us today be doubly sure
	That our country's cause is just
	And that our hemlines are straight.
	Let us  be strengthened by the fact
	That although our-nation-is-beset-
	With-serious-problems-at-home-and-
	Abroad, we  did not eat untimely meat
	Or forbidden  sweet and actually
	Lost several pounds during Lent.
	Let us  resolve once more to leave
	The running of this world to men
	Who make it the rewarding and
	Well-organized existence that we know,
	Those of us at least who have deserved
	It so, who by  our virtue
	Merit  decent homes, hope for our children
	And a hat with paper  flowers
	For  our social call this Sunday
	On the risen Christ,
	The nice Christ.	

							
									1952
	
	
	

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"Quam quaeritis in seplchre, O Christicolae?" Why do you seek Him in the grave, O little Christian ladies?
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