Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by PAUL FORT


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BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by                    
First Line: One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain
Last Line: One does not need to credit death.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain. O'er
sleeping fields the evening's breath dreams, and I hear eternity chime in the
bending ears of grain.

"Hark. An angelus dies in heaven's blue height." Be comforted. Hours pass away.
Hushed is the belfry? God doth wake. The nightingale salutes the day, hid in the
turret's rose-tree brake, and, in its turn, will mourn the night.

"Hark. Once again the hour doth swell." But the bell's already fast asleep.
Eternity is chiming deep borne by the sweet, tormented breath of zephyr and of
Philomel.

One does not need to credit death.





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