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"The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus" is a poem by Oliver St. John Gogarty. It was written around Christmas of 1904 and was later published in modified form as "The Ballad of Joking Jesus" in James Joyce's ''Ulysses''. ==Original text== The poem, like many of Oliver Gogarty's humorous verses, was written for the private amusement of his friends. In the summer of 1905, he sent a copy to James Joyce, then living in Trieste, via their mutual acquaintance Vincent Cosgrave. Joyce and Gogarty had quarreled the previous autumn, and Cosgrave presented the poem as a peace offering, writing Joyce that "the appended song of J is of course Gogarty's. He bids me send it. He desires you back in Dublin. ...It seems G desires reconciliation so that if you write to me be unequivocal." :I'm the queerest young fellow that ever was heard. :My mother's a Jew; my father's a Bird :With Joseph the Joiner I cannot agree :So 'Here's to Disciples and Calvary.' :If anyone thinks that I amn't divine, :He gets no free drinks when I'm making the wine :But have to drink water and wish it were plain :That I make when the wine becomes water again. :My methods are new and are causing surprise: :To make the blind see I throw dust in their eyes :To signify merely there must be a cod :If the Commons will enter the Kingdom of God :Now you know I don't swim and you know I don't skate :I came down to the ferry one day and was late. :So I walked on the water and all cried, in faith! :For a Jewman it's better than having to bathe. :Whenever I enter in triumph and pass :You will find that my triumph is due to an ass :(And public support is a grand sinecure :When you once get the public to pity the poor.) :Then give up your cabin and ask them for bread :And they'll give you a stone habitation instead :With fine grounds to walk in and raincoat to wear :And the Sheep will be naked before you'll go bare. :The more men are wretched the more you will rule :But thunder out 'Sinner' to each bloody fool; :For the Kingdom of God (that's within you) begins :When you once make a fellow acknowledge he sins. :Rebellion anticipates timely by 'Hope,' :And stories of Judas and Peter the Pope :And you'll find that you'll never be left in the lurch :By children of Sorrows and Mother the Church :Goodbye, now, goodbye, you are sure to be fed :You will come on My Grave when I rise from the Dead :What's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly :And Olivet's breezy—Goodbye now Goodbye. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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