Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE END, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON


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THE END, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father got me strong and straight and slim
Last Line: "I am the end."
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives


My father got me strong and straight and slim
And I give thanks to him.
My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet,
I kiss her feet!

But now, with me, their generation fails
And nevermore avails
To cast through me the ancient mould again,
Such women and men.

I have no son, whose life of flesh and fire
Sprang from my splendid sire;
No daughter for whose soul my mother's flesh
Wrought raiment fresh.

Life's venerable rhythms like a flood
Beat in my brain and blood,
Crying from all generations past,
"Is this the last?"

And I make answer to my haughty dead,
Who made me, heart and head,
"Even the sunbeams falter, flicker and bend --
I am the end."





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