Ye Also, as Living Stones, Are Built up a Spiritual House

O, Christ--
thou cornerstone--
thou baseplate--
thou church's one foundation--
let's build something together.

I Am Cast out of Thy Sight; Yet I Will Look Again Toward Thy Holy Temple

O, wretched soul! O, mountain-heart!
Be thou cast into the sea--
there to be baptized
in the belly of the fish-provided.

Lord, that your grace 
may vomit me
and make me clean.

For, as Thou Urgest Justice, Be Assured Thou Shalt Have Justice (More Than Thou Desir'st)

My deeds upon my head!
O, Lord, I crave the law.
If every penny
in one-hundred pence
were in one-hundred parts,
and every part a penny--
I would have my bond.

Wring thus the beggar by the throat
as though it were a second Shylock saying:
Pay me that thou owest;
and lay thy bosom bare.
Pray, Our Father, 
please, forgive our debts,
for I stand here for law.

By Hearing Ye Shall Hear, and Shall Not Understand

Sound, thunder--
for the voice of God
strikes cloud-to-ground
through heaven's gate:

a bass-beriddled parable
heard (unheard)
by tone (not tenor)