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The Hand of God 
 
THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 In the Museum oj the Luxembourg 
 
 FIRST VIEW 
 
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 HAND of GOD 
 
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 By Max Shoop 
 
 ^n Appreciation of 
 
 Rodin's Study 
 
 in Marble 
 
 NEW rORK 
 George H. Doran Company 
 
The Hand of God 
 
 THE Master Mind had scarce conceived 
 Its mighty thought divine, 
 Than straight his potent touch enwrapt 
 That thought in marble line. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 THE form he hewed has symbolized 
 A truth that God might utter, 
 To guide our wavering souls on earth 
 In dispute o'er mind and matter. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
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 UT of an unshaped, Infinite Mass, 
 (So the thought of the Master ran), 
 That forms Existence, whatever It be, 
 Stretches a wondrous hand, 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 WHOSE lines are blurred in infinite 
 strength 
 To obey the Will behind, 
 Which myriad years have named alway, 
 God, — a Power, — yet blind. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
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 UT the Hand of God is a hand of 
 Love, — 
 
 The hand of an Infinite Whole 
 That grasps a clod of its own self 
 To make the human soul. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 In the Museum of the Luxembourg 
 
 SECOND VIEW 
 
THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 UPON that hand appears no strain, 
 Nor sign of human toil, — 
 Its task is done with infinite ease. 
 All human thought to foil. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 WITH mystic pressure unseen by Man, 
 This Hand of God out-welds 
 A vintage of Life of finite vein, 
 As th' ethereal self-mass yields 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 TO a visible form of God on Earth, 
 A man and woman, — known 
 To us but by external sign: 
 The inner is his, alone. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 YEA, a visible form of God on Earth, 
 A man and woman, born 
 To live as units separate, — 
 A counterpart, asunder torn. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 In the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 A SORRY work our ignorance has 
 wrought 
 Out of this plan, Above! — 
 For the Unit-two from the Mass are 
 
 formed 
 With arms entwined in love: 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
 SO closely knit that thus they seem 
 To ooze together, out the Mass, 
 Lip to lip, — and heart to heart; 
 Sympathy divine, — their clasp. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
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 iHUS, in love, from the Mass conceived, 
 By the pressure of Its own Hand, 
 Came a Human Pair, with will set free, 
 As God's ideal of Man. 
 
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THE HAND OF GOD 
 
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 E has let them fall from His upraised 
 Hand, 
 
 To be tossed in the world below, — 
 Piteously unable to ever see 
 Whence they came, or whither go! 
 
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