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Doom and She

6/2/1840-1/11/1928


I

         There dwells a mighty pair -
         Slow, statuesque, intense -
         Amid the vague Immense:
None can their chronicle declare,
         Nor why they be, nor whence.

,h II

         Mother of all things made,
         Matchless in artistry,
         Unlit with sight is she. -
And though her ever well-obeyed
         Vacant of feeling he.

III

         The Matron mildly asks -
         A throb in every word -
         "Our clay-made creatures, lord,
How fare they in their mortal tasks
         Upon Earth's bounded bord?

IV

         "The fate of those I bear,
         Dear lord, pray turn and view,
         And notify me true;
Shapings that eyelessly I dare
         Maybe I would undo.

V

         "Sometimes from lairs of life
         Methinks I catch a groan,
         Or multitudinous moan,
As though I had schemed a world of strife,
         Working by touch alone."

VI

         "World-weaver!" he replies,
         "I scan all thy domain;
         But since nor joy nor pain
Doth my clear substance recognize,
         I read thy realms in vain.

VII

         "World-weaver! what IS Grief?
         And what are Right, and Wrong,
         And Feeling, that belong
To creatures all who owe thee fief?
         What worse is Weak than Strong?" . . .

VIII

         --Unlightened, curious, meek,
         She broods in sad surmise . . .
         --Some say they have heard her sighs
On Alpine height or Polar peak
         When the night tempests rise.


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