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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF, by MARCELLA P. FRANK
First Line: If dying I might pierce the endless deep
Last Line: I'd win the master title to my skiff.
First Line: If dying I might pierce the endless deep
Last Line: I'd win the master title to my skiff.
If dying I might pierce the endless deep --
If I with God-like surety might explore
The alluring depths of that so awful sweep
And find my hidden hopes become a store
Of timeless truth, from mortal moorings I
Would loose my skiff in some flamboyant dawn,
And ride adrift with only silent sky
For company, -- my earth-day forest lawn
Horizon lost. What matter then that time
In thievishness would through my body steal?
I would have done with body's pantomime,
And be oblivious of woe or weal.
With subtlety to woo the staying "If",
I'd win the master title to my skiff.
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