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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WALL, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot answer, though I hear you call
Last Line: But when I waken, I behold—the wall!
Subject(s): Walls
First Line: I cannot answer, though I hear you call
Last Line: But when I waken, I behold—the wall!
Subject(s): Walls
I CANNOT answer, though I hear you call!
Ah, yes, I hear you, but I wait, I wait. ...
I am a prisoner behind a wall—
In honor bound unto my jailer, Fate!
Within the wall, I wander as I please;
Full well my jailer knows he takes no chance,
Full well he knows he has no need of keys—
I will not scale the wall of Circumstance!
But here behind the wall, I dream—strange dreams
That trouble, yet that somehow comfort me—
Of open fields, wide skies and running streams,
Of flying birds, of all things happy, free!
And always in my dream, I hear you call,
But when I waken, I behold—the wall!
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