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FATE by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD

First Line: A WIDE BARE FIELD 'NEATH BLINDING SKIES
Last Line: TRAIL ON AND ON, BECAUSE THEY MUST.
Subject(s): FATE; DESTINY;

A WIDE bare field 'neath blinding skies,
Where no tree grows, no shadow lies,
Where no wind stirs, where no bee flies.

A roadway, even, blank and white,
That swerves not left, that swerves not right,
That stretches, changeless, out of sight.

Footprints midway adown its dust;
Two lagging, leaden feet that just
Trail on and on, because they must.



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