Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORGIVEN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY


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FORGIVEN, by                    
First Line: O wave and wind! O bee and chanting bird
Last Line: "most poignant of reproaches is—""forgiven!"
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Paradise


O WAVE and wind! O bee and chanting bird,
O angels, making harmony in Heaven,
What music have ye like that single word
Reserved for mortal ears, the word Forgiven!

But if again we own the sins of youth,
Rewrite the bitter script which Love had riven,
Then worst of all intolerable shames,
Most poignant of reproaches is—"Forgiven!"





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