Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER, by CARLA LANYON LANYON


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ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER, by                    
First Line: I shall not die entirely from this earth
Last Line: As pleased as he when april skies were blue.
Subject(s): Immortality


I shall not die entirely from this earth
Though even love forget me by and by,
Though all my words become as nothing worth,
And no man sings my songs; I shall not die.
In after years part of my life will be
At play about the meadows and the streams,
For I have set my immortality
Further than songs can go, deeper than dreams.

So, when a child, on some far morn astir
With April promises, runs in, and spills
Beneath the portrait of his ancestor
A tumbled heap of meadow daffodils,
He will not know his eyes are bright because
A child of long ago loved flowers too,
And that strange lady in the picture was
As pleased as he when April skies were blue.





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