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标题：I Find Wade's Footsteps Far Too Large to Walk - Poem
作者：William John Watkins
期刊名称：Commonweal
印刷版ISSN：0010-3330
出版年度：1997
卷号：June 20, 1997
出版社：Commonweal Foundation

I Find Wade's Footsteps Far Too Large to Walk - Poem

William John Watkins

For Wade, 1963-93

   I follow Wade, my son, as some do Christ.
   What good I do is good done in his name.
   I take his life as pattern for my life
   and try to give as freely as he gave,

   who almost at the moment that he died
   waved off a nurse to tend a wardmate's pain
   whose face he never saw. And I have tried
   to love as he loved, but I try in vain.

   I take my joy from when I feel him near,
   my pain from doubt that he is here at all,
   and though my death no longer makes me fear,
   at death I fear I may not hear him call.

   If, though I lived him day by day, he's gone,
   the loss is less, and Hell's already done.