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THE VOICE OF GOD by JAMES STEPHENS

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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