Religion
Fourth Antiphone
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Religion
As the wings and the locks of the wind
Are scattered and shaken,
Thou hast scattered all them that have sinned,
There was no man taken;
As a sower that scattereth seed,
So hast thou scattered us;
As one breaketh and shattereth a reed,
Thou hast broken and shattered us.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Fourth Antiphone.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/499/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Fourth Antiphone.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/499/.
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