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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SOME POOR FAULT ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: Let her so much as lend pale scrutiny
Last Line: The brothers of the word for what it said.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Let her so much as lend pale scrutiny
Last Line: The brothers of the word for what it said.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness
Let her so much as lend pale scrutiny
To some poor fault that words of his reveal,
Offended silence calls for mutiny
To oust the renegade without appeal,
And beckons grief to starve its anarchy,
Imprison it behind a stony seal,
Lest such a spectre's frail humanity
Infect the others with impassioned zeal:
The executioner, gray penitence,
Stooped with the death of each small whitened face,
Is haunted by the ghostly impotence
With which each sinner importunes his grace
To influence the man not to behead
The brothers of the word for what it said.
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