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NIRVANA by JOAN BUCKLEY

First Line: IF I COULD BE LIKE THE CLOVER
Last Line: WITH GOD'S GREAT BROOM . . .
Subject(s): HEAVEN; PARADISE;
If I could be like the clover,
Patient and still;
Turning from fevered pleasures,
Resigning my will.

Folding my hands together
Softly in prayer;
As clover-leaves are folded
From evening air.

Then I might weave a poem
On mystic loom,
Delicate, fresh and simple
As clover bloom.

If I could sweep me bare
With God's great broom . . .



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