Heavens! I think 'circumstance' is one of the finest things in this very fine sonnet. I don't know whether the writer had this quotation from G.K. Chesterton in mind (probably not) but I'll copy it in nevertheless. It's the last sentence of 'The Purple Wig' in The Wisdom of Father Brown'.
As Miss Barlow rattled away cheerfully, he crumpled up the copy and tossed it into the waste paper basket; but not before he had, automatically and by mere force of habit, altered the word 'God' to the word 'circumstances'.
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