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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHY DO WE LIVE?, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poet's Biography
First Line: O my body, my eyes, my mouth
Last Line: Save to expand the widening realms of death!
Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery
First Line: O my body, my eyes, my mouth
Last Line: Save to expand the widening realms of death!
Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery
O my body, my eyes, my mouth,
Why do we live?
To breathe day's farewell in the darkening south,
To bring to the quest of a virgin's drouth
The draught we can give;
To trail in the dark of an icy stream
The branch of a dark laurel,
While dimly we watch, in the depths of our dream,
Virgil caressed by shades auroral;
To ride a savage horse,
To breast a torrent's course. ...
O my heart, why do we live?
To be a moment of the primal cause of birth,
An hour of the essence vibrative,
One of the secret mates of eternal earth.
Why live, O deepest flesh of me, why live,
Why quicken cordial breath,
Save to expand the widening realms of death!
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