Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HERITAGE, by AMY CROCKER LEIGHTON


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HERITAGE, by                    
First Line: We are a cordon-rope of love
Last Line: To mount the universal stair.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Love; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The


We are a cordon-rope of love
Who march this winter field, below;
A blackened sky now stands above
To blot the earth that death may blow
Her trumpet over freedom's land
And terrorize with each command.

We are a cordon-rope of love
Whose very lives are bred of steel
By men who ventured all to shove
Beyond the tread of tyrant's heel
And sing with open-throated song
Of common justice, common wrong.

We are a cordon-rope of love
And woven well by godly hand,
We lift our purpose far above
The spires of greed that our command
May filter guidance, unaware,
To mount the universal stair.





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