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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PHOENIX, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON
First Line: The fire has faded as I knew it must
Last Line: Of all the souls who grieve and lose and yearn.
Subject(s): Fire; Light; Memory
First Line: The fire has faded as I knew it must
Last Line: Of all the souls who grieve and lose and yearn.
Subject(s): Fire; Light; Memory
The fire has faded as I knew it must,
The ashes lie in picturesque array;
They keep the shape of castle or of knight—
The fire has faded and the room is gray.
The fire has faded and the dream is gone
Although it echoes in the heart's wide space,
There's need for courage in the cruel dawn
Of days denied the fire's glowing grace.
The room is chiller now; it was so bright
It seemed that not a shadow could return,
And I but walk in memory of the light
That flickered from the logs that used to burn.
What gain, oh soul, but that I sense the plight
Of all the souls who grieve and lose and yearn.
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