Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FURTHER PRAYER, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE


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First Line: O giant universe of star and sun
Last Line: And dearest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge


O GIANT Universe of star and sun,
And World whose sea-searched crust
Is teased by merchant lust,
Delved in, built over, road-scarred, fought upon:
Help me to make my littleness mine own
And not pretend that things surmised are known..
To feel my helplessness as innocence
And, unashamed as is the ladybird,
Live in a tiny cage of vivid sense
And trouble naught for things by distance blurred;
Crush not in me that virtue of the mind,
Which undismayed can find
In very impotence a well of peace
And be least blind absorbed by what it sees
Clearest,
Which, affined unto the soul, familiar is
And dearest.





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