Versos English William Lyon Phelps Xxxi

English poem

Xxxi

by (1865–1943)

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But I need, now as then, Thee, God, who mouldest men; And since, not even while the whirl was worst, Did I,--to the wheel of life With shapes and colours rife, Bound dizzily,--mistake my end, to slake Thy thirst: