For your sweet sake : poems / by James E. McGirt [electronic text]

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McGirt, James E. (James Ephraim)

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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co.

1906

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"For your sweet sake : poems / by James E. McGirt [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9181.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.

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A QUEST.

 Tell me, my soul, tell me, I pine to know, Some future day, known as the harvest time!Am I to reap from all the grain I sow,My ill-wrought deed am I to claim as mine? 

 If I should hurl my javelin in the dark, And spread out thorns and thistles 'long the way, Will it return and find me as its mark? Am I to tread the thorns some future day? 

 O Lord, I pray that Thou wouldst guide my hand; Let not an evil seed by me be sown, Or cause to sprout within a brother's land What I should hate to see within my own. 