Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON THE DUNES, by SARA TEASDALE


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First Line: If there is any life when death is over
Last Line: Stand on the sun-swept dunes and call my name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


If there is any life when death is over,
These tawny beaches will know much of me,
I shall come back, as constant and as changeful
As the unchanging, many-colored sea.

If life was small, if it has made me scornful,
Forgive me; I shall straighten like a flame
In the great calm of death, and if you want me
Stand on the sun-swept dunes and call my name.





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