...despair? This: — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!1 All I could never bo, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand...

...last spoke, from his poem " Rabbi Ben Ezra": — "Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow fact. Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. " So take and use thy work : Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past...

...verse. Elsewhere the poet sings: " Not on the vulgar mass Called ' work' must sentence pass ; " and " All I could never be, All men ignored in me. This I was worth to God, whose wheel ihe pitcher shaped." Hut of Sordello's unfruitful existence says : " A sorry farce Such is life after...

...me : we all surmise, They, this thing, and I, that: whom shall my soul believe? August Fourteenth. All I could never be, All, men ignored in me ; This I was worth to God. August Fifteenth. So, take and use Thy work, Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what...

...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped...

...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, Yet swelled the man's amount.' In other words, there is a great deal of unseen material ever going to make up the character of the...

...plumb " that he prizes most in himself. As artist, therefore, he would wish to express "All instincts immature, All purposes unsure That weighed not as his -work, yet swelled the man's amount." And yet, as he shows, the artist is impotent to do this except by most pitiful suggestions, for these...

...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account : All instincts immature. All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: XXV. Thoughts hardly to>be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped...

...little of that aspiration which is the measure of being : " All I could never be, All men ignored irr me ; This I was worth to God Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." They need a prophet like Moses to tell them of a promised land within their reach. All men, we are...

...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, but swelled the man's account. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies...All men ignored in me — This I was worth to God." Let us be very sure, as S. Paul was, that in the sight of God we are just what we are. In the clearness...