Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAST WORDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: He left me for a foreign land
Last Line: "shall beam upon us -- there!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Sun; Tears


HE left me for a foreign land:
I could not even free
One little tear to gem the hand
That God had given me;
For "I will follow soon, my dear,"
I laughed with girlish air, --
"The sun that cheers our pathway here
Shall beam upon us there!"

And so we parted. . . . Listen, God! --
I may not even free
One little tear to dew the sod
Where, sleeping peacefully,
He waits in foreign lands -- my dear!
But prophecy and prayer, --
"The sun that cheers our pathway here
Shall beam upon us -- there!"





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