Which poem ends with the following two lines:
And Jesus came to the Bull Ring,
And wept for Calvary.
(I'm not sure about the way Bullring is spelt)

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 04 Feb 2004 07:38 PST

Dear ronowen60,

There is a Jesus poem where the name of any town can be inserted; it
has lines that look very similar to the two you quoted. However, in
that poem only one of those lines is at the end.

Do these excerpts look familiar to you? Do you think that they could
belong to the poem you are looking for?

"When Jesus came to Golgotha they hanged him on a tree,
They drove great nails through hands and feet, and made a Calvary.
[...]
When Jesus came to [insert any place name here] they simply passed him by,
They never hurt a hair of him, they only let him die;
[...]
The crowd went home and left the streets without a soul to see,
And Jesus crouched against a wall and cried for Calvary."

Please let me know if this is what you have in mind.
Regards,
Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by ronowen60-ga on 09 Feb 2004 13:37 PST

Dear scriptor,
This is the way I remember it - from an anthology I picked up in a
library in Birmingham about forty years ago. An occasional word may be
wrong - the first word, I suppose, might have been "When..." for
example. Bull Ring might be Bullring - it refers here to a marketplace
in the middle of Birmingham, which used to be a crowd of wooden
stalls, but which has been modified over the years. The last two lines
stuck in my mind, and I have often hoped I might come across the poem
again. Come the Internet and Google... well, the answer must be out
there. The Jesus poem mentioned certainly has the same overall feel,
although Birmingham seemed too tired to be anything but
indifferent.The poem I remember fitted easily onto one book page, and
the word was "wept" not "cried", I am sure.