Dresden's Shrove Tuesday | Sojourners

Dresden's Shrove Tuesday

A poem
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Deep with one savior’s death, how many more?
In observance of which, the Dresden burghers
as usual held Shrove Tuesday circuses
around Our Lady’s Church, the Frauenkirche,
eating pancakes before their fast for Easter.

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