| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| How much of Godhood |
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| HOW much of Godhood did it take— | |
| What purging epochs had to pass, | |
| Ere I was fit for leaf and lake | |
| And worthy of the patient grass? | |
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| What mighty travails must have been, | 5 |
| What ages must have moulded me, | |
| Ere I was raised and made akin | |
| To dawn, the daisy and the sea. | |
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| In what great struggles was I felled, | |
| In what old lives I labored long, | 10 |
| Ere I was given a world that held | |
| A meadow, butterflies and Song? | |
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| But oh, what cleansings and what fears, | |
| What countless raisings from the dead, | |
| Ere I could see Her, touched with tears, | 15 |
| Pillow the little weary head. | |
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