Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WAR BRIDE, by LUCILLE KAHN


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THE WAR BRIDE, by                    
First Line: Child whose smile has drifted through my / dream
Last Line: Chalicing the life that is to be.
Subject(s): War


CHILD whose smile has drifted through my dream,
In that undiscovered life-to-be
All my stains are purged by a stream
Welled of love from out infinity.

Child of tears, of passion, and of God;
Child of wonder, child of ecstasy,
Barefoot stand I on the ground we trod
Once together, child that is to be.

He has passed, my lover, but his soul
Will return to mine, of certainty,
Proud to father you unto the goal,
Proud to love me, child that is to be.

Child whose touch shall rend apart the veil,
Child whose kiss shall solve the mystery,
I am sanctified before the Grail
Chalicing the life that is to be.





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