| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | God’s House | | By Leslie Nelson Jennings |
| | | WHEN people go to summon God | |
| Unto his earthly throne, | |
| The roof whereunder God may house | |
| Must be a cry in stone. | |
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| For God, he will not hear a prayer | 5 |
| That lies against the ground— | |
| How shall the worm lift up to God | |
| So suppliant a sound? | |
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| How shall the birds who build so small | |
| Be heard beneath the sky?— | 10 |
| Or those who have no mason’s hand | |
| Be shriven with a cry? | |
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| Ten million spires of prayer there be | |
| In Christendom today— | |
| There is no God in Lisser Wood, | 15 |
| Or on the queen’s highway. | |
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| And I who cannot square a stone, | |
| Or lodge beneath a roof, | |
| Have heard strange horns on sundown hills | |
| And seen the devil’s hoof! | 20 | | | |
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