It is the helpless and the fallen soul That holds within its depths nobility, And we should with its sin and griefs condole And learn each good and noble quality; For no man falls so low upon this earth But what some great and lasting good he owns, And when the Christ in him has found its birth The evil sins and thoughts it soon dethrones. The greatest men of all the times were those Who sinned repeatedly and often fell, And yet when Christ Himself in them arose They saved their souls from out the depths of Hell. For often sin and shame are born where love Has found no opportunity to show Its God-like attributes drawn from above, Nor chance has had its kindnesses to know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG by DAVID IGNATOW ESTRANGEMENT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE AUDACIOUS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS by AMY LOWELL THE SLAVE TRADE: VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by CLARENCE MAJOR |