Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FULFILMENT, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS



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First Line: What do you ask, o soul?
Last Line: "shall ever be the token for the onset."
Subject(s): Life; Self-satisfaction; Soul


What do you ask, O soul?
What is the joy, or worth, or goal
Which you with unremitting urge desire?

"I ask for Life's fulfilling,
For complete fruition of innate promise.
I ask to reach my vision's outmost marge,
That all I see potential may become actual.
I ask that lethargy may never lay
Its numbing hand on any vibrant force;
And that the challenge of my best desire
Shall ever be the token for the onset."





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