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I SHALL NOT GO BACK TO THE PLACE THAT I LOVE by SARA TEASDALE

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Last Line: I SHALL NOT GO BACK TO THE PLACE THAT I LOVE
Subject(s): PAST;

I shall not go back to the place that I love,
I shall never try to repeat the perfect hour;

I know the past is gone, yet it is safe enough
Even to the small blue six-pointed flower.

They say the earth itself in millions of years
Will drift like fine gray ash that the wind has whipped and tossed,

And the blackened sun will grope blindly among the spheres
But I am not afraid that the things I love will be lost.



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