Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JOB THE REJECTED, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: They met, and overwhelming her distrust
Last Line: The confirmation of her soul's desire.


THEY met, and overwhelming her distrust
With penitence, he praised away her fear;
They married, and Job gave him half a year
To wreck the temple, as we knew he must.
He fumbled hungrily to readjust
A fallen altar, but the road was clear
By which it was her will to disappear
That evening when Job found him in the dust.

Job would have deprecated such a way
Of heaving fuel on a sacred fire,
Yet even the while we saw it going out,
Hardly was Job to find his hour to shout;
And Job was not, so far as we could say,
The confirmation of her soul's desire.





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