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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO JOURNEYS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER
First Line: A short step from birth to death
Last Line: The grain of innocence.
Subject(s): Aging; Bodies; Life
First Line: A short step from birth to death
Last Line: The grain of innocence.
Subject(s): Aging; Bodies; Life
A short step from birth to death
The body takes;
The seventy year aging
An easily covered territory.
But the soul goes a different journey.
Cast out from the garden,
And still remembering,
It labors late
To win back from the soil
The grain of innocence.
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