"Lord, I owe Thee a Death" (Alice Meynell) @ ELCore.Net

“Lord, I owe Thee a Death”

Hooker

(In Time of War)

Man pays that debt with new munificence,
Not piecemeal now, not slowly, by the old:
Not grudgingly, by the effaced thin pence,
But greatly and in gold.

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Created April 14, 2001; not revised.