Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES


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EARTH-LOVE, by                    
First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here
Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth!
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


I shall not mind when Time comes to me here
And orders, "Come and follow where I go."
I shall not mind when I must say adieu
And leave this body with its weighted eyes,
And cares and joys of life shall know no more.
I shall not mind, I vow, when I must leave
All things that here are mine, or might be mine
If I should stay awhile. And yet I make
To what I say, this one exception -- one:
I shall not mind, provided I may know
That in the Somewhere I may stand and look
And watch you where you go, old lovely earth!





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