Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TITHES, by HARRIET SAMPSON



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TITHES, by                    
First Line: One tenth of what their acreage had grown
Last Line: Would buy a mansion in the heavenly state.
Subject(s): Money; Religion; Theology


One tenth of what their acreage had grown
They gave unto Jehovah; so they made
With separate hands a sacrifice and trade,
And reaped what they penuriously had sown.
They had reward. We heard it in the tone
On every Sabbath evening when they prayed
Forgiveness for the paltry sins they laid
Concealed in cupboards. Virtues they made known.

They liked to get ahead of God and pay
Before he asked them to; they would not wait
For incandescence of a judgment-day,
But calculated on a homely slate
That just one tenth their corn and calves and hay
Would buy a mansion in the heavenly state.





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