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  • GregoryGarrett
  • I am releasing various poems from my poetry book, "The Smile Of Chagrin", available at Lulu.com

Credit Due

Credit Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each revision of the mind

 

 

 

Brings the soundest sweetest lease,

 

 

 

On the visionary find

 

 

 

Of which like dismay I cease.

 

 

 

 

 

The very act which casts upon

 

 

 

The source distinctive credit due,

 

 

 

Forges Flumes that carry on

 

 

 

Continued grace all through and through.

 

 

 

 

 

But as soon as we retrace

 

 

 

With what splendor we express,

 

 

 

And deny what spring of grace

 

 

 

That would perish think of less

 

 

 

Than the lending to delight

 

 

 

Every soul which hath an ear,

 

 

 

In a never-ending aim of sight

 

 

 

To uphold all so very dear,

 

 

 

 

 

Then in spite of yet our goal,

 

 

 

We discount the very force,

 

 

 

And quick appears the rocky shoal

 

 

 

And in this from depth divorce.

 

 

 

 

 

So, though increase may seem temptation

 

 

 

To attain the credit due,

 

 

 

In support of His elation,

 

 

 

Were He of nature, He would sue!

 

 

 

 

 

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lucindaclaire commented on Credit Due

01-08-2010

Giving credit where credit is due....It can be hard to live out the idea of never letting your right hand know what your left hand is doing. It is a great way to keep one's ego in check.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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