| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | The Celestial Surgeon | | By Robert Louis Stevenson |
| | | IF I have faltered more or less | |
| In my great task of happiness; | |
| If I have moved among my race | |
| And shown no glorious morning face; | |
| If beams from happy human eyes | 5 |
| Have moved me not; if morning skies, | |
| Books, and my food, and summer rain | |
| Knocked on my sullen heart in vain:— | |
| Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take | |
| And stab my spirit broad awake; | 10 |
| Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, | |
| Choose Thou, before that spirit die, | |
| A piercing pain, a killing sin, | |
| And to my dead heart run them in! | | | | |
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