Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEAD UNTO SIN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: I have buried me out of the land of sin
Last Line: I am the man who was born to-day
Subject(s): Death; Repentance


I have buried me out of the land of sin,
I have straightened my limbs in its last sad light,
I have dug me a grave its desert within,
1 have lowered my being out of its sight.

I have said the last prayers above the tomb,
Prayers of penitence, prayers of peace;
And out of the land of sin I have come.
Bathed in the Joy of a full release.

It was not I that was left behind,
It is not my past that is buried there;
I am a soul of another kind.
And it is another name I bear.

I am the man who is standing here,
Glad and alert for an opening way;
I am the houI with its record clear,
I am the man who was born to-day.





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