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^{Image shown: "The Flight into Egypt," 1993, Patrick Pye, Marian Library Art and Artifacts Collection}

The Flight into Egypt
Through every precinct of the wintry city
Squadroned iron resounds upon the streets;
Herod's police
Make shudder the dark steps of the tenements
At the business about to be done.
Neither look back upon Thy starry country,
Nor hear what rumors crowd across the dark
Where blood runs down those holy walls,
Nor frame a childish blessing with Thy hand
Towards that fiery spiral of exulting souls!
Go, Child of God, upon the singing desert,
Where, with eyes of flame,
The roaming lion keeps thy road from harm.
^{– Thomas Merton (See more Marian poems by Thomas Merton)}

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