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OCTAVES: 1 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO GET AT THE ETERNAL STRENGTH OF THINGS,
Last Line: IS ALWAYS AND UNFAILINGLY AT HAND.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;

We thrill too strangely at the master's touch;
We shrink too sadly from the larger self
Which for its own completeness agitates
And undertermines us; we do not feel --
We dare not feel it yet -- the splendid shame
Of uncreated failure; we forget,
The while we groan, that God's accomplishment
Is always and unfailingly at hand.




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