Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I WOULD NEVER KNEEL, by SARAH LOUISA P. SMITH


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I WOULD NEVER KNEEL, by                    
First Line: I would never kneel at a gilded shrine
Last Line: That should free-will homage find.
Subject(s): Worship


I WOULD never kneel at a gilded shrine,
To worship the idol gold;
I would never fetter this heart of mine,
As a thing for fortune sold

There are haughty steps that would walk the globe
O'er necks of humbler ones;
I would scorn to bow to their jewell'd robe.
Or the beam of their coin-lit suns.

But I'd bow to the light that God has given,
The nobler light of mind,
The only light, save that of Heaven,
That should free-will homage find.





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