Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CREDO, by CORAL MORGAN


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CREDO, by                    
First Line: I know my people. Looking from afar
Last Line: And I shall bid my kinsmen enter in.
Subject(s): Houses; Religion; Theology


I know my people. Looking from afar
I have beheld them. I have learned their tongue
and could converse with them even as one
accustomed, and the gods they worship are
my gods. I do not beat the door they bar
against me; I have built, and it is done,
a house as tall as theirs against the sun,
pointing its turrets to the self-same star.

So I have built, not bitterly nor in pride,
a noble dwelling, firm upon the rock,
firm on the faith that they are of my kin.
And so I warm my house, and brew, and bide.
And I shall open to them when they knock
and I shall bid my kinsmen enter in.





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