“I'll seek my own meekness.
What grace I have is enough.”

—  Theodore Roethke

"Unfold! Unfold!," ll. 59-64
Praise to the End! (1951)
Context: I'll seek my own meekness.
What grace I have is enough.
The lost have their own pace.
The stalks ask something else.
What the grave says,
The nest denies.

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