Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE AND YOU, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN


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LIFE AND YOU, by                    
First Line: Ask much of life
Last Line: Her golden key.
Subject(s): Birth; Future Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


Ask much of Life;
Nor falter in your plea.
Be bold; for Life—
Brief segment
Of Eternity—
Grants eagerly to all
Who unafraid,
Make great demands.
No craven suppliant
She heeds; for lo,
Withdrawn she stands,
With troubled eye,
When timorous souls
(For trivial things)
Their birthright
Would deny.
Then greatly dare;
Make regal plea;
Life yields the bold
Her golden key.





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