Is my heart not sacred, full of finer life

Richard Wetz

Is my heart not sacred, full of finer life,

now that I love? Why did you regard me more

when I was prouder and more truculent,

when I was more wordy and more vain?

Ah, only what is good for the marketplace can please people;

the servant respects only an oppressive master.

To believe in the divine

one must be divine in one's own right.