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BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD

"There, but for the grace of God, goes . . ."

There is a question that I ask,
And ask again:
What hunger was half-hidden by the mask
That he wore then?

There was a word for me to say
That I said not;
And in the past there was another day
That I forgot:

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