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When by Jabbok the patriarch waited	A
To learn on the morrow his doom	B
And his dubious spirit debated	C
In darkness and silence and gloom	B
There descended a Being with whom	B
He wrestled in agony sore	D
With striving of heart and of brawn	E
And not for an instant forbore	D
Till the east gave a threat of the dawn	E
And then as the Awful One blessed him	F
To his lips and his spirit there came	G
Compelled by the doubts that oppressed him	F
The cry that through questioning ages	H
Has been wrung from the hinds and the sages	I
Tell me I pray Thee Thy name	G
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Most fatal most futile of questions	J
Wherever the heart of man beats	K
In the spirit's most sacred retreats	K
It comes with its sombre suggestions	J
Unanswered forever and aye	L
The blessing may come and may stay	M
For the wrestler's heroic endeavor	D
But the question unheeded forever	D
Dies out in the broadening day	M
	-
In the ages before our traditions	J
By the altars of dark superstitions	J
The imperious question has come	N
When the death stricken victim lay sobbing	O
At the feet of his slayer and priest	P
And his heart was laid smoking and throbbing	O
To the sound of the cymbal and drum	N
On the steps of the high Teocallis	J
When the delicate Greek at his feast	P
Poured forth the red wine from his chalice	J
With mocking and cynical prayer	D
When by Nile Egypt worshiping lay	M
And afar through the rosy flushed air	D
The Memnon called out to the day	M
Where the Muezzin's cry floats from his spire	D
In the vaulted Cathedral's dim shades	J
Where the crushed hearts of thousands aspire	D
Through art's highest miracles higher	D
This question of questions invades	J
Each heart bowed in worship or shame	G
In the air where the censers are swinging	O
A voice going up with the singing	O
Cries Tell me I pray Thee Thy name	G
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No answer came back not a word	Q
To the patriarch there by the ford	R
No answer has come through the ages	J
To the poets the seers and the sages	J
Who have sought in the secrets of science	J
The name and the nature of God	S
Whether cursing in desperate defiance	J
Or kissing his absolute rod	S
But the answer which was and shall be	T
My name Nay what is it to thee	T
The search and the question are vain	U
By use of the strength that is in you	V
By wrestling of soul and of sinew	U
The blessing of God you may gain	U
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There are lights in the far gleaming Heaven	U
That never will shine on our eyes	J
To mortals it may not be given	U
To range those inviolate skies	J
The mind whether praying or scorning	O
That tempts those dread secrets shall fail	W
But strive through the night till the morning	O
And mightily shalt thou prevail	W

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