The film and source play's "Children of a Lesser God" title is derived from the twelfth chapter of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" cycle of twelve narrative poems. It states: "I found Him in the shining of the stars, I marked Him in the flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me! for why is all around us here, As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would, Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are dense and dim, And have not power to see it as it is: Perchance, because we see not to the close;- For I, being simple, thought to work His will, And have but stricken with the sword in vain; And all whereon I leaned in wife and friend, Is traitor to my peace, and all my realm, Reels back into the beast, and is no more. My God, thou hast forgotten me in my death; Nay - God my Christ - I pass but shall not die".

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