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Thanks, Hamptons, for the Lawrence poem.  Have enjoyed this string, started 
by David Dunn's quote info.  Jann McGuire

<< D.H. Lawrence 

 






   The Hands of God


 

  

    

 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  

 But it is a much more fearful thing to fall out of them.  

    

 Did Lucifer fall through knowledge?  

 oh, then, pity him, pity him that plunge!  

    

5 Save me, O God, from falling into the ungodly knowledge  

 of myself as I am without God.  

 Let me never know, O God  

 let me never know what I am or should be  

 when I have fallen out of your hands, the hands of the living God.  

    

10 That awful and sickening endless sinking, sinking  

 through the slow, corruptive levels of disintegrative knowledge  

 when the self has fallen from the hands of God,  

 and sinks, seething and sinking, corrupt  

 and sinking still, in depth after depth of disintegrative consciousness  

15 sinking in the endless undoing, the awful katabolism into the abyss!  

 even of the soul, fallen from the hands of God!  

    

 Save me from that, O God!  

 Let me never know myself apart from the living God!  >>