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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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XII
“EVERY MAN FOR HIS OWN HAND”

I may not call what many call divine,
And yet my faith is faith in its degree;
I worship at a dim and lonely shrine
On bended knee.
The secret grace of faith's celestial part
I hoard up safely for mine own self's own;
Within the hidden chambers of the heart
I love alone.