Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LAST INCARNATION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS


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THE LAST INCARNATION, by                    
First Line: Where I shall find her matters not
Last Line: "and lasting peace!"
Subject(s): Incarnation


WHERE I shall find her matters not,
So that she be
The long-imagined, un-forgot
Lost complement of me.
"Love of an hundred lives,—whose soul
Is linked with mine,
Whose quest the Gods have made my goal,—
A sign! A sign!"

The teasing Fates that sport with men
And blind their view,
Illude with phantoms, jeering when
I take the false for true;
I leave their lures, and, searching, go
Secure and strong,
Because I know she waits—But, oh,
How long? How long?

When I have found her, we, made wise
Through sins untold,
Chastened and cleansed by all that lies,
Lived, in those lives of old,
Shall seek the Sacred Shrines and cry
For our release;
"Grant us, oh, High Gods, leave to die ...
And lasting peace!"





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