Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS



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First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen
Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


I thought, "How terrible, if I were seen
Just as in will and deed I have always been!
And if this were the fate that I must face
At the last day, and all else were God's grace,
How must I shrink and cower before them there,
Stripped naked to the soul and beggared bare
Of every rag of seeming!" Then, "Why, no,"
I thought, "why should I, if the rest are so?"





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