Dilemma by Orrick Johns. Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. 1922. The Second Book of Modern Verse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.

Dilemma

Orrick Johns


WHAT though the moon should come
With a blinding glow,
And the stars have a game
On the wood’s edge,
A man would have to still	5
Cut and weed and sow,
And lay a white line
When he plants a hedge.

What though God
With a great sound of rain	10
Came to talk of violets
And things people do,
I would have to labor
And dig with my brain
Still to get a truth	15
Out of all words new.