Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OCTAVES: 9, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: When one that you and I had all but sworn
Last Line: The wisdom that is in that wonderment.


When one that you and I had all but sworn
To be the purest thing God ever made
Bewilders us until at last it seems
An angel has come back restigmatized, --
Faith wavers, and we wonder what there is
On earth to make us faithful any more,
But never are quite wise enough to know
The wisdom that is in that wonderment.






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