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FAILURE by GEORGE MACDONALD

Poet Analysis

First Line: FAREWELL, O ARM OF THE LORD!
Last Line: BUT THE FAILURE OF THE LORD!
Subject(s): FAILURE; FAREWELL; GOD; WAR; PARTING;
FAREWELL, O Arm of the Lord!
Man who hated the sword,
Yet struck and spared not the thing abhorred!
Farewell, O word of the Word!
Man who knew no failure
But the failure of the Lord!



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