Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOREVER, by BERTHA MILLER COLLINS


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FOREVER, by                    
First Line: Away and away in the far blue distance, life
Last Line: Which is carried away forever, ever . . . Aye!
Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Singing & Singers; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Songs


Away and away in the far blue distance, life
invisible vanishes where the rough grey stone
with its night-dark spruce leans hard against the sky.

Forever's the last soft note that is sung by one
who stands in a golden robe where shadows are deep
in the vaulted arc. A cowl is over the head.

For waiting hands, which are folded across the breast,
is held a soul. Now a fragile beauty of self
which is carried away forever, ever . . . aye!





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