Assurance
James Oppenheim 1882 – 1932 (New York City)
Yea, there are as many stars under the Earth as over the Earth...
Plenty of room to roll around in has our planet...
And I, at the edge of the porch,
Hearing the crickets shrill in the star-thick armies of grass,
And beholding over the spread of Earth the spread of the heavens...
Drink this deep moment in my pilgrimage,
With a sense of how forever I have been alive,
With a conviction that I shall go on, ever safe, ever growing,
The stars to be included in my travels,
And the future sure before me.
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Submitted by halel on July 13, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 |
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