Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY HEAVEN, by CATHERINE CUSHMAN LEACH


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MY HEAVEN, by                    
First Line: Your heaven, friend, has massive gates of / gold
Last Line: Within a heaven so loveless, friend, as thine.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Paradise


YOUR Heaven, friend, has massive gates of gold
With ponderous keys to lock inside its fold,
Composed of such few children of the earth
As never faced temptation, or from birth
Armed with strong weapons, studied how to fight
And overcome wrong's forces by their might,
The orthodox who worshipped by your creed,
The rich who helped your sect in time of need,
A few "saved sinners" driven to aver
Their wickedness—Ah, friend, I much prefer
My Heaven, which holds the teeming world within
Its wide ways, waiting for each soul to win,
Its boundless reaches, large enough for all
Who struggle upward, suffer, sin, and fall—
For God is love and thus would soon repine
Within a Heaven so loveless, friend, as thine.





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