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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHY ARE WE HERE, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH
First Line: Why are we here? None has come back to say
Last Line: Why are we here? That souls bear fruit each spring.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Why are we here? None has come back to say
Last Line: Why are we here? That souls bear fruit each spring.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
Why are we here? None has come back to say—
Yet surely not to grumble at our fate.
Nor for an instant should we hesitate
To render some small kindness day by day.
So man must ever work that he may pay
Through honesty; and he should meditate
But lightly on rewards which come too late.
To love and serve—this is the only way.
Seek not success, nor what success may bring—
Rather drift outward with the changing tide.
Visions on earth shall only be as wide
As dreams conceived by what man's soul may sing.
Work but for joy—not gain—put fear aside.
Why are we here? That souls bear fruit each spring.
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