Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ULTIMATELY, by GEORGE ELLISTON


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First Line: When I go out
Last Line: "back through the door."
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime


"When I go out,
And darks descend,"
One said, "I'd like
To be a wind."
Another cried,
"I'd go afar;
I'd be the gold
Of a shining star."
Water, one thought,
He'd like to be,
And sing away
To a shining sea.
Another said,
"Oh, I'd be light.
I hate the dark
Fret in the night."
The last one said,
"Clay from my birth
Contented I
Return to earth.
"I shall know winds
And be caressed
By waters pressing
My warm breast.
"Stars shall gleam on
Me goldenly;
And light shall bring
My own to me.
"I would be earth
No less, no more;
I'd pass serene
Back through the door."





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