I do not fear to lay my body down
In death, to share
The life of the dark earth and lose my own,
If God is there.
I have so loved all sense of Him, sweet might
Of color and sound,-
His tangible loveliness and living light
That robes me 'round.
If to His heart in the hushed grave and dim
We sink more near,
It shall be well-living we rest in Him.
Only I fear
Lest from my God in lonely death I lapse,
And the dumb clod
Lose him; for God is life, and death perhaps
Exile from God.
Exile From God
John Hall Wheelock
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Poem topics: dark, heart, light, lonely, earth, sweet, sense, share, grave, color, body, sound, fear, life, death, god, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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