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OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 16, by                    
First Line: God knows the burdened soul's dark sorrowing
Last Line: To wake the murmurs of th' immortal soul?
Subject(s): God; Love


God knows the burdened soul's dark sorrowing
When hearts are sadly pregnant with old fears.
God knows the labour that it is to bring
The child of laughter from the womb of tears.
And oh, life's tempered joy, cold, bitter band,
Sorrow embowered in bright pleasure's wreath,
Heart's passion, quickened by love's fiery breath,
Heart's hope, denied by fate's despoiling hand;
The golden vision of God's shining face
Mid halting steps and body's shambling dress—
All this the travail and the bitterness,
The gall that sours the spirit's wonted grace.
And must the body bear the blood-writ scroll
To wake the murmurs of th' immortal soul?





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