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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SAVIOUR'S SILENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: We know the worst -- the darkest doom
Last Line: He would have said, were these not so
Subject(s): Jesus Christ
First Line: We know the worst -- the darkest doom
Last Line: He would have said, were these not so
Subject(s): Jesus Christ
We know the worst -- the darkest doom
That lies beyond the sinner's tomb,
The long, black agonies of hell
That loving Voice spared not to tell.
The merest gleam of heaven sufficed
Heaven's Herald, the revealing Christ;
But sin He showed, and penalty,
How faithfully! how anxiously!
As when a father sends his son
Out in the clashing world alone,
He warns him of the evil there,
Nor stays to picture what is fair.
What glories, then, what mysteries,
Lie in the Saviour's silences!
What bliss we could not have believed,
Eye hath not seen nor mind conceived!
The dearest wish, the fondest hope,
The fair ideal's farthest scope,
No longer doubt, but dare to know;
He would have said, were these not so
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