Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REVERSE PITY, by GEORGIA BLANEY SKAER


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REVERSE PITY, by                    
First Line: Your life so full of joyous things
Last Line: Tis I who pity you.
Subject(s): Pity


Your life so full of joyous things,
You seek to pity me, who bring
No tale of travel lore to sing
To winter groups; who never climbed
The wondrous Alps, or saw the Nile;
Whose journeys were not timed, as yours
To bow before the Midnight Sun,
Or Parthenon of ancient Rome,
Or Taj Mahal, the final home
And perfect shrine of India's queen.

I beg you spare your pity, friend!
My life to me is full of joy.
Two splendid children are my own --
A daughter and a boy;
A tiny vine-swept home,
A helpmate, understanding, true.
With them, in soul, I've journeyed far
On earthly globe and alien star.
In tiny craft, with cooling breeze
We've sailed across the Aegean seas --
At nightfall we have softly tread
O'er Macedonian battlefields --
Sometimes red with blood.
And we have stopped to tell
The crippled soldiers, lying as they fell,
Of God's illimitable Love.

I beg you spare your pity, friend --
'Tis I who pity you.





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