From "The Second Temple"

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From "The Second Temple"

Excerpt from The Twelve-Gated City

Anthony Esolen

Mar 17, 2023

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This week’s Poetry Aloud is an excerpt from my book-length poem, The Twelve-Gated City (in progress; © Anthony M. Esolen). The selection is from “The Second Temple,” sixth of the poem’s thirty-three dramatic monologues. The setting is this: the Jews have returned from 70 years in captivity in Babylon, and they are beginning to build the sacred Temple. …

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