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Longing by Sara Teasdale

10/14/2008 2:40:44 AM

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Sara Teasdale
(1884 - 1933)

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Longing

I am not sorry for my soul
That it must go unsatisfied,
For it can live a thousand times,
Eternity is deep and wide.

I am not sorry for my soul,
But oh, my body that must go
Back to a little drift of dust
Without the joy it longed to know.

Sara Teasdale

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