Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KINSHIP, by EDWARD H. S. TERRY


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KINSHIP, by                    
First Line: I am part of the sea and stars
Last Line: And the ages sent me forth!
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


I am part of the sea and stars
And the winds of the South and North,
Of mountain and moon and Mars,
And the ages sent me forth!

Blind Homer, the splendor of Greece,
Sang the songs I sang ere he fell;
She whom men call Beatrice
Saw me in the depths of hell.

I was hanged at dawn for a crime—
Flesh dies, but the soul knows no death;
I piped to great Shakespeare's chime
The witches' song in Macbeth.

All, all who have suffered and won,
Who have struggled and failed and died,
Am I, with work still undone,
And a spear-mark in my side.

I am part of the sea and stars
And the winds of the South and North,
Of mountain and moon and Mars,
And the ages sent me forth!





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