The Mind
Imperfection
From My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889)
The Mind
Ah, never is the Almighty Artist's plan
Crowned and completed in the life of man.
At best a broken fragment we up-rear
Above the tomb, that like a visible prayer
Pleads on and ever with the Infiuite,
For other lives to come and finish it,
And for the eternal temple make it fit.
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Codex Note
From the section "Poems for Christie" of My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889).
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Massey, Gerald. “Imperfection.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/184/.
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Massey, Gerald. “Imperfection.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/184/.
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