Sonnet [I, Strengthened, Left Him. Next In A Close Place]

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Title:     Sonnet [I, Strengthened, Left Him. Next In A Close Place]
Author: George MacDonald [More Titles by MacDonald]

I, strengthened, left him. Next in a close place,
Mid houses crowded, dingy, barred, and high,
Where men live not except to sell and buy,
To me, leaving a doorway, came a grace.
(Surely from heaven she came, though all that race
Walketh on human feet beneath the sky.)
I, going on, beheld not who was nigh,
When a sweet girl looked up into my face
With earnest eyes, most maidenly sedate--
Looked up to me, as I to him did look:
'Twas much to me whom sometimes men mistook.
She asked me where we dwelt, that she might wait
Upon us there. I told her, and elate,
Went on my way to seek another nook.

[The end]
George MacDonald's poem: Sonnet [I, Strengthened, Left Him. Next In A Close Place]

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