...'And who will forgive God?' That, of course, was FitzGerald's Omar put into Mr. Maugham's prose: ' For all the sin wherewith the face of man Is blackened, Man's forgiveness give — and take!' But Mrs. Littlewood spoke it with all the force of her being; and later, when she ' went on ' a bit...

...impute my Fall to Sin ? LVIII. Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake ; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA. LIX. Listen again. One Evening at the Close...

...meaning is the design which symbolizes the verse, " Oh Thou, who man of baser earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake ; For all the sin wherewith the face of man Is blacken'd, man's forgiveness give — and take!" Here the pardon-giving and pardon-imploring hands,...

...farther on, if he reaches the depths of blasphemy, he touches the highest heights of magnanimity. " O Thou, who man of baser earth didst make, And even with Paradise devise the snake ! For all the sin the face of wretched mau Is black with, — man's forgiveness give — and take." But, if one begins...

...farther on, if he reaches the depths of blasphemy, he touches the highest heights of magnanimity. " O Thou, who man of baser earth didst make, And even with Paradise devise the snake 1 For all the sin the face of wretched man Is black with, — man's forgiveness give — and take."...

...Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin ! LXXXI. Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake : For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken' d — Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken...

...to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestined evil round Emesh, and then impute my fall to sin ! Oh Thou who man of baser earth didst make, And even with...Is blackened, Man's forgiveness give — and take ! " And the same painful and unsatisfied cry, — the same confession that the burden of the problem...

...Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin ! • LXXXI. Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake : For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Isblacken'd — Man's Forgiveness give — and take! LXXXII. As under cover of departing Day Slunk...

...magnanimous enough, I might unite with Omar Khayyam, the Persian poet, in that stanza where he says : " O Thou who man of baser earth didst make, And even...snake, For all the sin wherewith the face of man Is blackened—man's forgiveness give and—take." But granting that there is no such relation between...

...quatrain of Omar Khayyam : — O Thou who man of baser earth didst make, And e'en in Paradise devised the Snake ; For all the sin wherewith the face of...Is blackened, man's forgiveness give — and take ! The heart of humanity anticipated its logic by many ages, and, long before the daring genius of the...