| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935). Collected Poems. 1921. |
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| VIII. Avon’s Harvest, Etc. |
| 6. Job the Rejected |
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| THEY met, and overwhelming her distrust | |
| With penitence, he praised away her fear; | |
| They married, and Job gave him half a year | |
| To wreck the temple, as we knew he must. | |
| He fumbled hungrily to readjust | 5 |
| A fallen altar, but the road was clear | |
| By which it was her will to disappear | |
| That evening when Job found him in the dust. | |
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| Job would have deprecated such a way | |
| Of heaving fuel on a sacred fire, | 10 |
| Yet even the while we saw it going out, | |
| Hardly was Job to find his hour to shout; | |
| And Job was not, so far as we could say, | |
| The confirmation of her soul’s desire. | |
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