during his lifetime, but almost none of his poems. It might have been shyness: many are love poems, and others reveal private struggles. But if they open a window on a man s inmost thoughts, they also show him at his most essential and Christ-centered.The same is true for the poems of his wife, Emmy, and her sister Else, which have also been collected in this book. It is their depth that makes them such vital reading for us who live in the community they founded, but who easily forget what it was that drove them, and what it cost them. A few days after Eberhard s death, Emmy approached a neighbor with a folder of his unpublished poems in hand: They are not mine anymore I want to share them. Belated as it might be, this collection is a fruit of her generosity. May it rouse us to seek the faith, hope, and love it witnesses to so clearly.
P O E M S a n d R H Y M E D P R AY E R S
Eberhard Arnold published most of his essays
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P O E M S AND RHYMED P R AY E R S Eberhard & Emmy Arnold ✦ Else von Hollander