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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAINT PAUL: 16, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft when the word is on me to deliver
Last Line: Die for their life, be offered for them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus
First Line: Oft when the word is on me to deliver
Last Line: Die for their life, be offered for them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus
Oft when the Word is on me to deliver
Lifts the illusion and the truth lies bare;
Desert or throng, the city or the river,
Melts in a lucid Paradise of air,—
Only like souls I see the folk thereunder,
Bound who should conquer, slaves who should be kings,—
Hearing their one hope with an empty wonder,
Sadly contented in a show of things;—
Then with a rush the intolerable craving
Shivers throughout me like a trumpet-call,—
Oh to save these! to perish for their saving,
Die for their life, be offered for them all!
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