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HE HAS KEPT FAITH WITH BEAUTY by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD

First Line: IF I HAVE ERRED, O LORD, IN LOVE AND PLEASURE
Last Line: "HE KEPT HIGH FAITH WITH BEAUTY TO THE END."

IF I have erred, O Lord, in love and pleasure
Let this for all my failings make amend,
Whether at noon of toil or eve of leisure:
"He kept high faith with beauty to the end.

"He loved her not in days of splendor only
But in the gray of fogs, the dark of rain;
In droning streets or woodlands wild and lonely
She never called his poet-heart in vain.

"The gray moth growing grayer in the moon-ray,
The brown bee growing browner in the sun,
The strong hills burning amber in the noonday,
Or vales at dusk -- he loved them every one."

Great God, when Thou dost grieve my wayward faring
Let this one virtue all my sins defend;
And may I hear Thy voice at last declaring:
"He kept high faith with beauty to the end."



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