by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
Gloriously wasteful, O my Lord, art...
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Gloriously wasteful, O my Lord, art thou! Sunset faints after sunset into the night, Splendorously dying from thy window-sill --forever. Sad our poverty doth bow Before the riches of thy making might: Sweep from thy space thy systems at thy will -- In thee the sun sets every sunset still.
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- by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905), no title, appears in A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, Entry for March Second, first published 1880 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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