Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CLAY AND GOLD, by ROY LESLIE HERRICK


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CLAY AND GOLD, by                    
First Line: Not for you a face forgotten, not for you a flame erased
Last Line: Clay you were in all appearance, but the heart within was gold.
Subject(s): Hearts


Not for you a face forgotten, not for you a flame erased;
For the sunshine of your nature you can never be effaced.
Hearts that beat in tune with kindness ever throb the world's advance
And you had the key to genius, you the slave of circumstance;
Narrow in your whole life's vision, all you did is quickly told—
Clay you were in all appearance, but the heart within was gold.





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