Joaquin Miller
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I find so much of goodness still.
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
Joaquin Miller (March 10, 1841, or alternatively September 8, 1837, or November 10, 1841 - February 17, 1913) was the pen name of the colorful American poet, essayist and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller.
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Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.
[edit] Songs of the Sierras (1871)
- In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still.
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.- Burns and Byron (also known as In Men Whom Men Condemn), p. 175
[edit] In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
- I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.- The Ship in the Desert, p. 126
- The very clouds have wept and died
And only God is in the sky.- The Ship in the Desert.
