Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I AM A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER



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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I AM A VOICE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a voice singing the song of deliverance
Last Line: The song of joy—of deliverance.
Subject(s): Happiness; Home; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


I AM a voice singing the song of deliverance—
Centuries long, centuries long, floating aloft in ecstasy.
Surprised at myself—to find myself looking out on this landscape
here—to be engaged on these occupations and plans which people call mine,
but which are not mine at all—to be living in this house which it is
nothing to me whether I live in it or not—to be fretting myself with these
and these anxieties and cares—to be this limited and foolish mortal that I
am;
Yet again at intervals soaring aloft, going back again to my home in the
sky,
To sing for all time
The song of joy—of deliverance.





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