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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR A CHILD: 3. CONTEMPLATION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poet's Biography
First Line: Actually, child, I am a god
Last Line: And two mortalities, each solemnly regarding the other.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Actually, child, I am a god
Last Line: And two mortalities, each solemnly regarding the other.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
ACTUALLY, child, I am a god
Communing with you, a god:
We from our eternal stations
Behold in their infinite complexity the designs of the Almighty,
And among them, far away, tiny, unimportant,
Our age,
And in it, tinier, less important,
A town, a street, a cradle,
And two mortalities, each solemnly regarding the other.
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