Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I SHALL RETURN, by CLAUDE MCKAY


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I SHALL RETURN, by                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall return again; I shall return
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Homecoming


I shall return again; I shall return
To laugh and love and watch with wonder-eyes
At golden noon the forest fires burn,
Wafting their blue-black smoke to sapphire skies.
I shall return to loiter by the streams
That bathe the brown blades of the bending grasses,
And realize once more my thousand dreams
Of waters rushing down the mountain passes.
I shall return to hear the fiddle and fife
Of village dances, dear delicious tunes
That stir the hidden depths of native life,
Stray melodies of dim remembered runes.
I shall return, I shall return again,
To ease my mind of long, long years of pain.





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