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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM MOUNT MANSFIELD, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE First Line: I shall recall this day when I am old Last Line: Where we are one with earth and wind and tide. Subject(s): Memory | |||
I shall recall this day when I am old. And though my brain be dull with weight of years, And my heart's blood run thin by life's long tears, I shall have this my spirit to uphold; I shall have this to cloak me from the cold. As Death the intermediary nears, I shall remember Mansfield and my fears Will vanish then into the mind's stronghold. Today I stood on Mansfield's upturned face -- An atom of a god whose vision spied Into infinity through finite space; And narrow is the world, but very wide The mystic reaches of that other place Where we are one with earth and wind and tide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND THE SAME QUESTION by JOHN HOLLANDER FORGET HOW TO REMEMBER HOW TO FORGET by JOHN HOLLANDER ON THAT SIDE by LAWRENCE JOSEPH MEMORY OF A PORCH by DONALD JUSTICE BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS by DONALD JUSTICE NEW ENGLAND by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE |
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