Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMPRESSIONS OF DIVINITY, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS



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IMPRESSIONS OF DIVINITY, by                    
First Line: But your conception
Last Line: "be with you always. Amen."
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology


But your conception
Of what He is and was and shall be—
So my professor
Reassured me.
For God no longer has
The beard, the august, stately mien,
The voice of exceptional thunder,
With which my childhood clothed divinity.
Anthropomorphic (so my professor says)
Are childhood days.

"God is Love!" That was sweet
To whisper in my sweetheart's ear,
And I felt virtuous and somewhat Godlike
In loving her.
Surely God was near
When we were hand in hand
A-coming home, of summer evenings
Or along a streety wilderness of snow.
Ah, then I loved God best.

And now, that I am strictly scientific,
Solving formulae, calculating reactions,
Computing, experimenting, observing,
Gathering all manner of data,
God is the steady, final determinant
Chief factor in equations,
Of those unbroken unbreakable laws,
Disciplinarian for forces, regulator of statistics,
Relator of everything—
From Ptolemy to Einstein, there is God,
Adjusting every nice relationship.

And Sunday when I go to church
I hear: "And now may the peace of the Father,
The Son and the Holy Spirit,
Be with you always. Amen."





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