A Question
WAS it by chance or with intent, this jar
Of all its fellows missed the furnace flame,
And from the potter’s hand so plastic came
None other now may touch it but to mar?
A perfect fruit, loosed from the parent vine,
That may not now God’s gentlest sun withstand, —
A soul dropped, unawares, from out His hand
Into the lees of Life’s dissolving wine!
Of all its fellows missed the furnace flame,
And from the potter’s hand so plastic came
None other now may touch it but to mar?
A perfect fruit, loosed from the parent vine,
That may not now God’s gentlest sun withstand, —
A soul dropped, unawares, from out His hand
Into the lees of Life’s dissolving wine!