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THAT WHICH HATH BEEN IS NAMED ALREADY, AND THAT IS MAN by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: EYE HATH NOT SEEN: - YET MAN HATH KNOWN AND WEIGHED
Last Line: DEEP ANSWERETH DEEP.

'EYE hath not seen': -- yet man hath known and weighed
A hundred thousand marvels that have been:
What is it which (the Word of Truth hath said)
Eye hath not seen?

'Ear hath not heard': -- yet harpings of delight,
Trumpets of triumph, song and spoken word,
Man knows them all: what lovelier, loftier might
Hath ear not heard?

'Nor heart conceived': -- yet man hath now desired
Beyond all reach, beyond his hope believed,
Loved beyond death: what fire shall yet be fired
No heart conceived?

'Deep calls to deep': -- man's depth would be despair
But for God's deeper depth: we sow to reap.
Have patience, wait, betake ourselves to prayer:
Deep answereth deep.



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