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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESPAIR, by GLADYS HOUTZ
First Line: What have I missed?
Last Line: My days unceasing pain?
Subject(s): Despair
First Line: What have I missed?
Last Line: My days unceasing pain?
Subject(s): Despair
What have I missed?
What duty all important
Have I passed by?
I cannot think of any crime,
Of any injury more, than casual,
Of any great unkindness;
Yet I die!
It must have been a something great,
So great I could not miss it—
But I did.
It must be that my sin is great:
God's face is hid.
How have I failed?
What duty not made plain
Has made my nights an anguish,
My days unceasing pain?
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