Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE X-RAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Now science, with her keen, amazing eyes
Last Line: Receive no thought thou darest not confess!
Subject(s): X-rays


Now Science, with her keen, amazing eyes,
Can see through solids, piercing the opaque,
Can trace the fractured bone's deep hidden break,
Or note the buried bullet where it lies.
Would that her wisdom could be doubly wise,
To track the ways that lurking evils take,
To trace the hidden wounds that falsehoods make,
And pierce dishonesty's obscure disguise!
Some day, somewhere, with vision pure and clean,
With eyes well washed from sloth and selfishness,
What inly is will be sincerely seen,
And flawless truth a blundering world will bless.
Preparing for that day, O soul serene,
Receive no thought thou darest not confess!





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