Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR AN HOUR, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON


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First Line: I may not keep the heights I gain
Last Line: I gained the heights I could not keep.
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology


I may not keep the heights I gain
In those rare hours of ecstasy
When, scorning ease, despising pain,
Forgetting self, and winning free
From all that most entangles me,
I leave the low miasmic plain
Of sloth and doubt and greed to be
Companion of the heavenly train
Who tread the loftier ways; who keep
A tryst with stars, nor shrink nor cower
In craven fear or sluggish sleep,
Nor seek the ease of blossomed bower.
My earth-bound soul lacks breath and power
To hold a path so nobly steep,
Yet God be praised that for an hour
I gained the heights I could not keep.





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