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Charles Hamilton Sorley (Чарльз Сорли)


Whom Therefore We Ignorantly Worship


These things are silent. Though it may be told
Of luminous deeds that lighten land and sea,
Strong sounding actions with broad minstrelsy
Of praise, strange hazards and adventures bold,
We hold to the old things that grow not old:
Blind, patient, hungry, hopeless (without fee
Of all our hunger and unhope are we),
To the first ultimate instinct, to God we hold.

They flicker, glitter, flicker. But we bide,
We, the blind weavers of an intense fate,
Asking but this—that we may be denied:
Desiring only desire insatiate,
Unheard, unnamed, unnoticed, crucified
To our unutterable faith, we wait. 

September 1914

Charles Hamilton Sorley's other poems:
  1. East Kennet Church at Evening
  2. To Poets
  3. Marlborough
  4. Rooks (There is such cry in all these birds)
  5. Le Revenant


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