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LAMENT, by                    
First Line: David, the kindly clod has stopped your ears
Last Line: And night has more of glory it shall teach!
Subject(s): Lament


David, the kindly clod has stopped your ears
Long since. You need not know the fallacies
Your sweet lips framed, nor hang 'neath drooping trees
Your harp, nor be distraught by cosmic fears.
Jehovah, in His firmament, long years
Ago displayed his handiwork to ease
Your anxious heart. 'Twas he bade men to seize
Hope from a radiant bow, and dry their tears.

Jehovah Lord is dead! So dreams must die
Which are too fair from mathematic plan!
Dynamics claim the greedy mind of man --
Frail, transient man, whose hour is passing by.
Yet day to day has never ceased its speech
And night has more of glory it shall teach!





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