D&C 19:16-19 #2

Sonnet 794 D&C 19:16-19 #2

The Lord must really love a metaphor
In allegory, irony and such
He teaches us with parables galore
To give His doctrine lessons, common touch.

And here He teaches with the bitter cup
Remember, upper room, where first He gave
His loving friends the charge to drink it up
And then Gethsemane. The cup. The save.

And finally upon the awful cross
In irony triumphant did he cry
For having paid the full and awful cost
“I thirst” from having drunk the bitter dry.

And every week the cup is passed to you
Reminding of a debt that's always due.