Lazarus (1961) Elizabeth Jennings

Question 1

It was the amazing white, it was the way he simply

Answer 1

Refused to answer our questions, it was the cold pale glance

Question 2

Of death upon him, the smell of death that truly

Answer 2

Declared his rising to us. It was no chance

Question 3

Happening, as a man may fill a silence

Answer 3

Between two heart-beats, seem to be dead and then

Question 4

Astonish us with the closeness of his presence;

Answer 4

This man was dead, I say it again and again.

Question 5

All of our sweating bodies moved towards him

Answer 5

And all our minds moved too, hungry for finished faith.

Question 6

He would not enter our world at once with words

Answer 6

That we might be tempted to twist or argue with:

Question 7

Cold like a white root pressed in the bowels of earth

Answer 7

He looked but also vulnerable—like birth.