Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON RECORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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First Line: I would not bring a baby face
Last Line: Life's scars, for god himself to see!
Subject(s): Death; Faces; God; Life; Scars; Dead, The


I WOULD not bring a baby face
Smooth and unscarred, to God on high,
And say, "Hereon you find no trace
Of living, now I come to die."

No, battered up and down the ways,
I give Him back this proof of me;
Record of keen, tumultuous days,
Life's scars, for God Himself to see!





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