Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INDEPENDENCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL


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INDEPENDENCE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in wait that I may steal a view
Last Line: And I shall break them off at their dividing.
Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty


I LIE in wait that I may steal a view
Of truth as lovely as the spires of larch
Rising in limpid skies. But wandering March
Eludes me though I watch the swift year through
July to June: all visions dawn from you.
Though I look steadily across the arch
Of my own youth; though many splendors parch
My blood, your wisdom, Sweet, alone I listen to.
Yet I would win a beauty all my own,
Too fine for derivation or confiding, --
Surprise a truth your love has never shown
My servile glance; my themes, by living them,
Shall grow like laden branches from a stem,
And I shall break them off at their dividing.





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