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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EAGLE SONNETS: 6, by CLEMENT WOOD Poet's Biography
First Line: We are parts of a vaster thing than we
Last Line: Inexorably one with all that is.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion
First Line: We are parts of a vaster thing than we
Last Line: Inexorably one with all that is.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion
We are parts of a vaster thing than we,
Not isolated aliens astray:
We walk and breathe in a totality
That links all men in its organic sway.
Vaster than this, we grow within a one
That clasps all things that grow within its heart;
Yes, all the lifelessness from sun to sun
Shares in the body in which we have part.
How can the part prove traitor to the whole,
Or how rebel against itself? No more
Than body could rebel against the soul,
Or soul betray the body that it wore.
We are, for all our struts and ecstasies,
Inexorably one with all that is.
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