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Thou with strong prayer and very much entreating Willest be asked, and Thou shalt answer then, Show the hid heart beneath creation beating, Smile with kind eyes, and be a man with men. Were it not thus, O King of my salvation, Many would curse to Thee, and I for one, Fling Thee thy bliss and snatch at thy damnation, Scorn and abhor the shining of the sun. Ring with a reckless shivering of laughter Wroth at the woe which Thou hast seen so long; Question if any recompense hereafter Waits to atone the intolerable wrong.
Thou with strong prayer and very much entreating Willest be asked, and Thou shalt answer then, Show the hid heart beneath creation beating, Smile with kind eyes, and be a man with men. Were it not thus, O King of my salvation, Many would curse to Thee, and I for one, Fling Thee thy bliss and snatch at thy damnation, Scorn and abhor the shining of the sun. Ring with a reckless shivering of laughter Wroth at the woe which Thou hast seen so long; Question if any recompense hereafter Waits to atone the intolerable wrong.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- F. W. H. Myers (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 133 · printed citation: F. W. H. Myers (1843-1901.) (Saint Paul). · compiler notes excluded
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