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Pearls of great price
When Vermeer caught that most precious pearl
Sitting on the ear
Of that chaste young girl
Like a tear
Suspended.
He did not know
That pearls of greater price
Would later be heralding in
Human sacrifice, lives to plantations
Two men would be wept over,
Off to the nations,
As they stood quayside
Ready to leave behind
Loved ones, jobs, homes.
Those pearl drop tears
More precious than Vermeer’s
Fall on a canvas of light
To the refrain from those who cried
“That the lamb who had died
Will receive the reward
Of his sufferings”
Two Moravian missionaries from a community in Holland deliberately sold themselves into slavery as it was the only way they could gain access to slaves who worked the plantations. As the boat pulled away from the shore one of the missionaries cried out to the onlookers the last line of the poem. They had no way of knowing whether they would ever see loved ones again and were prepared to take the risk for the sake of the kingdom. The comparison with Vermeer who painted a girl form the same community some years earlier is thrown into sharp relief by the reference to the Pearl of Great Price referred to by Jesus in Matthew 13:46
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