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Last Line: And it were perjury!
Subject(s): God; Silence


I have a King, who does not speak -
So - wondering - thro' the hours meek
I trudge the day away-
Half glad when it is night - and sleep -
If, haply, thro' a dream, to peep
In parlors, shut by day.


And if I do - when morning comes -
It is as if a hundred drums
Did round my pillow roll,
And shouts fill all my childish sky,
And Bells keep saying "Victory"
From steeples in my soul!


And if I don't - the little Bird
Within the Orchard, is not heard,
And I omit to pray
"Father, thy will be done" today
For my will goes the other way,
And it were perjury!




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