Religion
What Shall It Profit
From An American Anthology, 1787-1900, ed. E. C. Stedman (1900)
Religion
If I lay waste and wither up with doubt
The blessed fields of heaven where once my faith
Possessed itself serenely safe from death;
If I deny the things past finding out;
Or if I orphan my own soul of One
That seemed a Father, and make void the place
Within me where He dwelt in power and grace,
What do I gain by that I have undone?
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Howells, William Dean. “What Shall It Profit.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/howells/10/.
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Howells, William Dean. “What Shall It Profit.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/howells/10/.
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