Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VOICE OF GOD, by JAMES STEPHENS



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First Line: I bent again unto the ground
Last Line: -- we are the voice of god! -- I cried.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


I bent again unto the ground
And I heard the quiet sound
Which the grasses make when they
Come up laughing from the clay.

-- We are the voice of God! -- they said;
Thereupon I bent my head
Down again that I might see
If they truly spoke to me.

But, around me, everywhere,
Grass and tree and mountain were
Thundering in mighty glee,
-- We are the voice of deity! --

And I leapt from where I lay!
I danced upon the laughing clay!
And, to the rock that sang beside,
-- We are the voice of God! -- I cried.





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