by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983)
Language: English
Don't pay attention to the old men in the temple: they have given up. Tell them what you told me: cast the sinners out, clean the house of God, load the rich with grief, prepare the poor with hope and Jesus, don't stop to play with Judas and his friends along the way.
Composition:
- Set to music by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), no title, 1966, published 1968, from The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary), no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983), appears in Beyond the Blues -- New Poems by American Negroes, first published 1962
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