Rudyard Kipling - Gertrude's Prayer

Rudyard Kipling - Gertrude's Prayer

That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend, br Nor water out of bitter well make clean; br All evil thing returneth at the end, br Or elseway walketh in our blood unseen. br Whereby the more is sorrow in certaine-- br Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe. br br To-bruized be that slender, sterting spray br Out of the oake's rind that should betide br A branch of girt and goodliness, straightway br Her spring is turned on herself, and wried br And knotted like some gall or veiney wen.-- br Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe. br br Noontide repayeth never morning-bliss-- br Sith noon to morn is incomparable; br And, so it be our dawning goth amiss, br None other after--hour serveth well.


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