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The Poems of Sidney Lanier
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III.
If I do ask, How God can dumbness keep
While Sin creeps grinning through His house of Time,
Stabbing His saintliest children in their sleep,
And staining holy walls with clots of crime? —
Or, How may He whose wish but names a fact
Refuse what miser’s-scanting of supply
Would richly glut each void where man hath lacked
Of grace or bread? — or, How may Power deny
Wholeness to th’ almost-folk that hurt our hope —
These heart-break Hamlets who so barely fail
In life or art that but a hair’s more scope
Had set them fair on heights they ne’er may scale? —
Somehow by thee, dear Love, I win content:
Thy Perfect stops th’ Imperfect’s argument.
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Chicago: Sidney Lanier, "3," The Poems of Sidney Lanier, ed. Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962- in The Poems of Sidney Lanier (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GEE9AKPDW45W3TE.
MLA: Lanier, Sidney. "3." The Poems of Sidney Lanier, edited by Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962-, in The Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GEE9AKPDW45W3TE.
Harvard: Lanier, S, '3' in The Poems of Sidney Lanier, ed. . cited in 1850, The Poems of Sidney Lanier, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GEE9AKPDW45W3TE.
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