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LOVERS by EDWIN MARKHAM

Poet Analysis

First Line: GOD COULD NOT FILL ALL PLACES; SO HE MADE
Last Line: WHEN GOD SHALL FILL IT AS ONE SOUNDING SEA!
Subject(s): LOVE;

God could not fill all places; so he made
Lovers to wander in the April shade;
Lovers to comrade with the nesting birds;
Lovers to build the home with happy words;
Lovers to speak the one immortal tongue;
Lovers to keep the world forever young;
Lovers to dream of what the world shall be
When God shall fill it as one sounding sea!



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