Evil

Marie E J Pitt 1869 (Bullumwaal, Victoria) – 1948 (Kew, Victoria)



NOT Beelzebub, but white archangel, I   
Turn the dim glass and shift the sands again,   
And touch the eyelids of the sons of men   
Lest they forget—forget and drowsy lie   
In Fate’s unfurrowed fallow till they die—           
As seed that quickens not for dawns that leap   
From out the dark of immemorial years,   
With kiss of wind and sun and wizard tears   
Of fugitive clouds to wake them from their sleep.   
With milestones I have set the crumbling sod           
Of human judgement that they stray not wide,   
Nor languish lost in labyrinths alway;   
And smile in pity when I hear them pray   
That Wrong’s rude whips from them be turned aside,   
Who call me Evil—not discerning God.
 

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBAACDECFGHIGF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 704
Words 119
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

Marie E J Pitt

Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt was an Australian poet and socialist activist, also journalist and Unitarian. more…

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