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SONNET III
GOD, MAN, WOMAN
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SONNET III
GOD, MAN, WOMAN
Yes, God is faithful. Man is faithful too.
And is not woman faithful?—Shall she be
The one thing faithless in this Trinity?
Can she who gathers beauty as the blue
Gathers the clouds, be the one thing untrue?
If God with might of all the faithful sea
Be stedfast, and if man be true as he,
Can woman fail the Leaders to pursue?
And is not woman faithful?—Shall she be
The one thing faithless in this Trinity?
Can she who gathers beauty as the blue
Gathers the clouds, be the one thing untrue?
If God with might of all the faithful sea
Be stedfast, and if man be true as he,
Can woman fail the Leaders to pursue?
If man will follow God, will she not deign
To follow man, though all the bitter way
By their abiding blood-drops be made plain?
If man and God will guide, will she obey?
If God and man be faithful to their pain,
Will she be true to love,—aye, even as they?
To follow man, though all the bitter way
By their abiding blood-drops be made plain?
If man and God will guide, will she obey?
If God and man be faithful to their pain,
Will she be true to love,—aye, even as they?
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