Jehovah

Alice Corbin

1881 to 1949

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God the Omnipotent,
How Thy purpose fails!
How little all
Thy thundering speech avails:

For somewhere in
The heart of man and beast,
Thy word of famine
Turneth to a feast;

And even while
The Soul of nature bleeds,
On lilies white
It pastureth and feeds.