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G. K. Chesterton

The vision of a haloed host
  That weep around an empty throne;
And, aureoles dark and angels dead,
  Man with his own life stands alone.

‘I am,’ he says his bankrupt creed:
  ‘I am,’ and is again a clod:
The sparrow starts, the grasses stir,
  For he has said the name of God.

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From The Wild Knight and Other Poems | Grant Richards, 1900

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