Our Share
And we ourselves? Are our hands clean? Are our souls free from blame For this world-tragedy? Nay then! Like all the rest, We had relaxed our hold on higher things, And satisfied ourselves with smaller. Ease, pleasure, greed of gold,-- Laxed morals even in these,-- We suffered them, as unaware Of their soul-cankerings. We had slipped back along the sloping way, No longer holding First Things First, But throning gods emasculate,-- Idols of our own fashioning, Heads of sham gold and feet of crumbling clay. If we would build anew, and build to stay, We must find God again, And go His way.
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"And we ourselves? Are our hands clean?..."
Exploring the themes of classic, William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham) delivers a powerful performance in "Our Share"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...