<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381313" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>But for the Grace of God</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“There, but for the grace of God, goes…”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There is a question that I ask,<br>And ask again: <br>What hunger was half-hidden by the mask <br>That he wore then? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a word for me to say<br>That I said not; <br>And in the past there was another day <br>That I forgot: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dreary, cold, unwholesome day, <br>Racked overhead,—<br>As if the world were turning the wrong way, <br>And the sun dead: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A day that comes back well enough <br>Now he is gone. <br>What then? Has memory no other stuff<br>To seize upon? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherever he may wander now <br>In his despair, <br>Would he be more contented in the slough <br>If all were there?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet he brought a kind of light <br>Into the room; <br>And when he left, a tinge of something bright <br>Survived the gloom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why will he not be where he is,<br>And not with me? <br>The hours that are my life are mine, not his,— <br>Or used to be. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What numerous imps invisible <br>Has he at hand,<br>Far-flying and forlorn as what they tell <br>At his command? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What hold of weirdness or of worth <br>Can he possess, <br>That he may speak from anywhere on earth<br>His loneliness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I be caught and held again <br>In the old net?— <br>He brought a sorry sunbeam with him then, <br>But it beams yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381313" data-title="But for the Grace of God de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="“There, but for the grace of God, goes…” There is a question that I ask, And ask again: What hunger was half-hidden by the mask That he wore then? There was a word for me to say That I said not; And in the past there was another day ..."></div> </div> </div>

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