Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RECONCILIATION, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON


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RECONCILIATION, by                    
First Line: If thou wert lying cold and still and white
Last Line: "let there be peace between us ere we die!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Caro


IF thou wert lying cold and still and white
In death's embraces, O mine enemy!
I think that if I came and looked on thee,
I should forgive; that something in the sight
Of thy still face would conquer me, by right
Of death's sad impotence, and I should see
How pitiful a thing it is to be
At feud with aught that's mortal. So tonight,
My soul, unfurling her white flag of peace,
Forestalling that dread hour when we may meet, --
The dead face and the living, -- fain would cry,
Across the years, "Oh, let our warfare cease!
Life is so short, and hatred is not sweet;
Let there be peace between us ere we die!"





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