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"Spring" (Poem of the Week Audio Version)
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"Spring" (Poem of the Week Audio Version)

Gerard Manley Hopkins
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One of the sillier things that people have taken to saying — and it sure is hard to keep up with the silliness — is that Easter comes from some pagan celebration of springtime, complete with eggs and bunnies. Suppose you ask, “Doesn’t the time of Easter depend upon the celebration of the Jewish Passover, because that’s when Jesus was put to death?” Yo…

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Poem of the Week
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