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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTHENICATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND
First Line: God of the hills, the seas, a granite wall
Last Line: The virtue of unshorn samson ... In the market to bare!
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Strength
First Line: God of the hills, the seas, a granite wall
Last Line: The virtue of unshorn samson ... In the market to bare!
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Strength
God of the hills, the seas, a granite wall
Pillared of Hercules' shoulder and girt of his might—
Give of your strength! I call as the Dead might call:
Crash the deep darkness of me—that I be Light!
Strength would I, God, but not by Achilles' heel,
Bound to a thing that menacing time may steal.
Blood-marked, my path—I cry no compassioning breast;
My certitude, forge it of iron, unharried by jest
Of living, of dying ... till defying all gods would I dare
The virtue of unshorn Samson ... in the market to bare!
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