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MOMENTS by JOHN COWPER POWYS

First Line: OH, THERE ARE MOMENTS IN OUR LIFE
Last Line: WHEN SUCH A MOMENT CAME TO ME!
Subject(s): GOD; LIFE; PRAISE; REASON; SEA; INTELLECT; RATIONALISM; BRAIN; MIND; INTELLECTUALS; OCEAN;

Oh, there are moments in our life
When the dim marshes of the mind,
Those livid swamps, where birds of strife
Beat up against a sullen wind,

Sink, drowned, in one tremendous flood,
Full-brimmed, resistless, like the sea.
I rose and praised God where I stood,
When such a moment came to me!



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