Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GLORY AND SHAME OF GOD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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THE GLORY AND SHAME OF GOD, by                    
First Line: God created man. He breathed into the mould
Last Line: Man is the shame of god!
Subject(s): Creation; God; Mankind; Shame; Human Race


God created man. He breathed into the mould
His sacred breath, and from the base arose
A prodigy of earth! Supreme o'er finite things
And heir to infinite. Creative power He gave
In all save life. As dwelling place He loaned
The gem of all His millioned stars,
He bade man live;—live, and joy in life;
Man was the glory of God!

God created man. The power He gave to clay
Grew insolent and arrogated all to self;
Denied the right to create life, man joyed
And reveled in destruction's fearful might.
He killed, yet not content with slaughter of the brute,
The instruments of death he hurled upon his kind
For fancied wrongs. The Universe sheds tears.
Man is the shame of God!





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