Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPILOGUE, by CHARLES T. DAVIS


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EPILOGUE, by                    
First Line: When I am come before his bar to render
Last Line: And, over all, unfaltering faith in god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T.
Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed


WHEN I am come before His bar to render
The reckoning of how my goods were spent,
I may not bear one thing of shining splendor
As increase of the talents He hath lent.

I may not lay before Him aught of glory,
Nor bring the radiant tributes great ones bring —
Only an ill-wrought rhyme, a song, a story,
Such as the least and lowliest may sing.

I hold in trust things of the earth and earthy.
As earth demanded I have paid the cost
To live with men, the wastrels and the worthy —
But He may count it good I have not lost

Belief in man and reverence for woman,
Even with knowledge of the paths they trod;
The trust as of a child in all things human,
And, over all, unfaltering faith in God.




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