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Jerusalem, fulcrum of our uplift,
Is not this rough plank the Cross, laid aslant Golgotha,
The lever with which the philosophers boasted
They could move the world?

Amit Majmudar


Photo by Stefie Zawa on Unsplash. Image cropped.

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