Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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MY COUNTRY, by                    
First Line: My country is the world--the whole round world
Last Line: The world—my country.
Subject(s): Earth; Nations; World


My Country is the World—the whole round World;
I scorn the boundaries of State,
I hate the narrowness of Hate,
The Empire-dreams of Would-be-great,
The cabined soul, the shallow pate
Of one-land folk I hate!—I hate!!

My Country is the World—the whole round World;
The soil, the mould-damp soil awakes
The life in countless seeds, and makes
An Eden of the blooms. The brakes
That skirt the borders of the lakes
Share in the life each bloom partakes.

So I, a child of the whole round World,
Share with the black in the tropic sun,
With my brother-man where the ice-streams run,
The gifts of the Master-soul, begun
With the breath called Life, that made ALL one,
With the Love that drew from oblivion
The World—MY Country.





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