Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CALLED TO BE SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: The lowest place. Ah, lord how steep and high
Last Line: Waits there prepared for it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


THE lowest place. Ah, Lord, how steep and high
That lowest place whereon a saint shall sit!
Which of us halting, trembling, pressing nigh,
Shall quite attain to it?

Yet, Lord, Thou pressest nigh to hail and grace
Some happy soul, it may be still unfit
For Right Hand or for Left Hand, but whose place
Waits there prepared for it.





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