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WHY SHOULD I WAIT?, by                    
First Line: If, as the oriental mystics say
Last Line: Why should I wait till death to be reborn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Jesus Christ; Rebirth; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


If, as the oriental mystics say,
This flesh is but a veil we cast aside,
While spirit in its everlasting glide
Flows deathless on between its banks of clay, --
If, as they tell us, death is but a Way
To poppied gardens lapped by Lethe's tide,
Where memories of old errors are denied
That souls may start afresh some kindlier day:

Why should I wait the resurrection gong,
The trumpet from the vast, unhurried sky?
The serpent at the robin's earliest song
Casts off his tarnished scales but does not die.
So I, new-veiled, shall greet tomorrow's morn --
Why should I wait till death to be reborn?





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