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COMMONPLACES by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: A COMMONPLACE LIFE,' WE SAY, AND WE SIGH
Last Line: OF OUR COMMONPLACE LIVES MAKES HIS BEAUTIFUL WHOLE.
Subject(s): RELIGION; SIMPLICITY; THEOLOGY;
"A commonplace life," we say, and we sigh;
But why should we sigh as we say?
The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky,
Makes up the commonplace day;
The moon and the stars are commonplace things,
And the flower that blooms, and the bird that sings:
But dark were the world and sad our lot
If the flowers failed and the bird sang not;
And God, who studies each separate soul
Of our commonplace lives makes His beautiful whole.



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