Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OCTAVES: 3, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: To me the groaning of world-worshippers
Last Line: The profit and the pride of his defeat.


To me the groaning of world-worshippers
Rings like a lonely music played in hell
By one with art enough to cleave the walls
Of heaven with his cadence, but without
The wisdom or the will to comprehend
The strangeness of his own perversity,
And all without the courage to deny
The profit and the pride of his defeat.






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