Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SCULPTURE, by ANONYMOUS


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First Line: I took a piece of plastic clay
Last Line: "he still that early impress bore, / and I could change it, nevermore"
Subject(s): Clay;mankind;religion; Human Race;theology


I took a piece of plastic clay
And idly fashioned it one day,
And as my fingers pressed it, still
It bent and yielded to my will.

I came again, when days were passed,
The bit of clay was hard at last,
The form I gave it, still it bore,
But I could change that form no more.

Then I took a piece of living clay
And gently formed it, day by day
And molded with my power and art,
A young child's soft and yielding heart.

I came again when years were gone,
It was a man I looked upon.
He still that early impress bore,
And I could change it, nevermore.





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