Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WIND IN THE TREE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND


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WIND IN THE TREE, by                    
First Line: Though I go quickly, it shall be
Last Line: As the wind ... In every flowering tree.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Though I go quickly, it shall be
As one who lived full years to see
Himself from darkling house set free ...

I shall not die, though chill be laid
On striving blood, and words unsaid
Fret the dark silence of leaf and mould
With dagger too keen for flesh to hold.

Death cannot slay me, though I lie
In dreamless crypt, of haggler bought;
Earth cannot cheat me of the sky;
Nor stars betray the thing they wrought.

Though I go quickly, rose will glow
With a new note of color; wind will blow
With a strange, sweet music ... I shall be
As the wind ... in every flowering tree.





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