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I Would Not Live Always I would not live always; I ask not to stay, Where I must bear the burden and heat of the day: Where my body is cut with the lash or the cord, And a hovel and hunger are all my reward. I would not live always, where life is a load To the flesh and the spirit:—since there's an abode For the soul disenthralled, let me breathe my last breath, And repose in thine arms, my deliverer, Death!— I would not live always to toil as a slave: O no, let me rest, though I rest in my grave; For there, from their troubling, the wicked shall cease, And, free from his master, the slave be at peace. John Pierpont's other poems: Распечатать (Print) Количество обращений к стихотворению: 1173 |
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