Poem outlines / by Sidney Lanier [electronic text]

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Poem outlines / by Sidney Lanier [electronic text]
Author
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1908
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"Poem outlines / by Sidney Lanier [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH8752.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2025.

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Page 71

It appears that if I were perfect

IT appears that if I were perfect, I could not be perfect.

For with whoever is perfect, there is nothing more to be done. But if there were nothing more to do, I would be very sorry: that is, I would not be perfect.

Therefore it appears that I would not be perfect if I were perfect.

[Credo, and Other Poems]
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