A Fear
O Mother Earth, I have a fear Which I would tell to thee-- Softly and gently in thine ear When the moon and we are three. Thy grass and flowers are beautiful; Among thy trees I hide; And underneath the moonlight cool Thy sea looks broad and wide; But this I fear--lest thou shouldst grow To me so small and strange, So distant I should never know On thee a shade of change, Although great earthquakes should uplift Deep mountains from their base, And thy continual motion shift The lands upon thy face;-- The grass, the flowers, the dews that lie Upon them as before-- Driven upwards evermore, lest I Should love these things no more. Even now thou dimly hast a place In deep star galaxies! And I, driven ever on through space, Have lost thee in the skies!
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"O Mother Earth, I have a fear..."
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