Shall I love God for causing me to be?
I was mere utterance; shall these words love me?Yet when I caused His work to jar and stammer,
And one free subject loosened all His grammar,I love Him that He did not in a rage
Once and forever rule me off the page,But, thinking I might come to please Him yet,
Crossed out ‘delete’ and wrote His patient ‘stet’.— Richard Wilbur
Stet is Latin for “Let it stand.”