Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DISCOVERY (2), by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY


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First Line: I have found god on a high hill alone, alone
Last Line: I have seen god with men, humanly alone.
Subject(s): God


I have found God on a high hill alone, alone,
On Lookout Mountain with Chattanooga far beneath me,
And above the Grand Canyon where waters hide in rock.
I have seen God as I sat on a park bench
Watching the flaming colors of the sunset,
And a red bird sang above me—
In the wideness of Dakota prairies—
At the foot of the lagoon where the Lincoln Memorial
Puts its feet in heaven—at the feet of Lincoln alone.

I have seen God in the corner of a mountain cabin
Where a small girl sang ballads
And her mother wept in loneliness.
I have seen God when my own mother
Sat beside the coffin of her son,
A young man killed by war.
I saw God in her old hands fumbling a German Bible,
And Jesus smiling to see two enemies at peace there.
I have seen God in the fellowship
All men bear with grief and pain—
The agnostic lifting the weary hands of the pilgrim,
The Christian binding the blasphemer's wounds.

I have seen God in beauty unspeakable
Of hills and sunsets—in the works of men—
Beauty like a sharp pain.
I have seen God with men, humanly alone.





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