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Poems written during estrangement: By William Watson
  

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XXIV
ALPHA AND OMEGA

He throned her in the gateways of the world,
He 'stablished her on high before the peoples.
He raised her as a watch-tower from the wave,
He built her as a lighthouse on the waters.
He maketh and unmaketh without end,
And He alone, who is first and last, shall judge her.