| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Birth of Sorrow | | By George McKnight (1840–1897) |
| | | WHEN Sorrow first appeared in Heaven of yore, | |
| The angels, by the voice of Fame beguiled, | |
| Believed he sprang from God’s unreconciled | |
| Resentment towards some wrong that vexed Him sore. | |
| But strange it seemed—they marvelled more and more— | 5 |
| That one of mien so meek, and look so mild, | |
| Should be of such stern parentage the child; | |
| Till heavenly Truth her tidings to them bore: | |
| “This beauteous stranger seraph whom ye see, | |
| Is offspring of that Hierarch benign | 10 |
| Who reconciles in unison divine | |
| The perfect peace of present Deity | |
| And strifes through which Creation’s work goes on,— | |
| Of God’s great Patience ye behold the son.” | | | | |
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