Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN


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REMEMBRANCE, by                    
First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay
Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart.
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement


I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay,
Commemorating dear ones now away;
No seasons rife in sorrow and regret,
When gloom pervades the shadowed eyes; and yet—
There's no day passes but some word or look
Unlocks the portals of a precious nook
Where memory hoards her gems of purest ray;
Memorial Day, for me, is every day.

And while I weave no wreaths for death enshrined,
Rare blossoms, frost nor fire nor time destroys,
I scatter freely, with my love entwined;
They token rather ever-living joys,
That were and now are sacred things apart,
Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart.





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