Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOT WHOLLY CHAINED, by FLORENCE BURRILL JACOBS


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NOT WHOLLY CHAINED, by                    
First Line: Beloved, if you love me, leave me free
Last Line: Of this small one we founded upon love.
Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty


Beloved, if you love me, leave me free.
I shall be twenty times your own, if I
May keep my old communion with the sky,
The pool that holds it, and one ancient tree,
Green meadows, and all lovely things there be;
If I may dance when autumn moons are white
With old, familiar spirits of the night,
Not wholly chained to domesticity.

For sometimes I have neither sex nor age,
But just the urge of one strong heritage:
To view an outspread world from heights above;
And seeing all the kingdoms of the earth,
Beloved, I shall measure best the worth
Of this small one we founded upon love.





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