Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by                    
First Line: No man can escape from a woman's love
Last Line: No man can escape if he tries.
Subject(s): Fathers; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


No man can escape from a woman's love
When once such a love has been given,
No refuge as safe as a woman's heart
For a life that's been cruelly driven,
And the winds of hate and the storms of pride
Are broken and scattered like spray
When a man returns and a woman forgives
The errors which marked yesterday.

No man can escape from a woman's prayers
No matter how far he may go,
For God answers prayer and the methods He takes
Are strange to us mortals below.
When prayers mix with tears and sorrows with love,
And souls that are burdened entreat,
There's something that moves man's hardness of heart
And urges repentance complete.

No man can escape from the love he has felt
For the children he brought into life,
No matter how long he's estranged from their thought
Through sin and its consequent strife;
For there's something divine in man's love for his child,
There's something that makes its appeal
To his innermost soul and moves him to show
The love which a father can feel.

No man can escape from himself though he aims
To forget or deny wicked deeds,
He may outwardly show to the world a calm mien,
But within his heart silently bleeds;
No bandage save Love can staunch mem'ry's wounds,
No friends can displace kinship's ties,
The love of his own, their prayers and himself,
No man can escape if he tries.





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