| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| Confessional |
| | | Katharine McCluskey |
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| I DO not kneel at night, to say a prayer; | |
| I think of spiders and I do not dare! | |
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| My knees are thin, and easily they could | |
| Gather a splinter, roughened from the wood. | |
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| I’m cold, and bed is warm; I’m better there, | 5 |
| Than in the outer darkness of a prayer! | |
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| But when the morning wakes up, pink and cool, | |
| And sunrise makes our peach-blooms glory-full; | |
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| And God comes smiling down the garden-walk, | |
| I run and slip my hand in His, and talk! | 10 |
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| I tell Him that I am a naughty lamb; | |
He laughs and says He made me as I am!
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