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THE BLIND GOD by ISAAC ROSENBERG

Poet Analysis

First Line: STREAKED WITH IMMORTAL BLASPHEMIES
Last Line: YOU HAVE STREAKED WITH BLASPHEMY?
Subject(s): GOD;
Streaked with immortal blasphemies,
Betwixt His twin eternities
The Shaper of mortal destinies
Sits in that limbo of dreamless sleep,
Some nothing that hath shadows deep.

The world is only a small pool
In the meadows of Eternity,
And men like fishes lying cool;
And the wise man and the fool
In its depths like fishes lie.
When an angel drops a rod
And he draws you to the sky
Will you bear to meet your God
You have streaked with blasphemy?




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