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THIS SPARK by HELEN HAYS HUTTON

First Line: WHAT WONDER IF MY MEMORY
Last Line: "OR ""IMMORTALITY."
Subject(s): LIFE; MEMORY;

What wonder if my memory
Would roam the sea or land,
Would soar across an azure sky
Or grovel in the sand,
When in my body glows a spark
That through all time has burned;
From throbbing life to throbbing life
Long eons ere man learned
To stand erect, to fly, to swim
Or crawl on slimy sod
It came, a steady undimmed flame,
From origin in God.

So long as I may hold this spark
It matters not to me
If man would call it "Chromosome"
Or "Immortality."



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