Marianne Moore

You Are Fire Eaters

Not a mere blowing flame—
      A clinking ash, I feel—with shame,
         At malendeavor in your service.
 
But as Jehoshaphat said on that occasion in
             Old Testament history,
 
      “The battle is not mine,”
      And strategy laid down—in fine
         Surrender, may be conquest.
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