Religion
A Voice Spake Out of the Skies
From The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems (1892)
Religion
A VOICE spake out of the skies
To a just man and a wise—
'The world and all within it
Will only last a minute!'
And a beggar began to cry
'Food, food or I die'!
Is it worth his while to eat,
Or mine to give him meat,
If the world and all within it
Were nothing the next minute?
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “A Voice Spake Out of the Skies.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/456/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “A Voice Spake Out of the Skies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/456/.
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