THE GRAVE

If men appointed His grave with wicked men

God intervened to utilise reserves:

Pilate would wonder on hearing Joseph beg

The holy body after a shameful death.

Under God's hand Joseph prepared the best,

Cared for the body in which God was expressed.

In his own tomb which he had hewn himself

He laid that body with loving tenderness;

Had an acquaintance come to Jerusalem

He would have judged that Joseph must be dead -  

In principle he would have been correct:

For him remained no prospect on this earth.