A Sonnet for Serenity
First quatrain and last couplet by Joshua Kronengold, second quatrain and following couplet by
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batyatoon, first couplet (5-6) and editing by
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thnidu.
Deny me answer to my heart's behest,
Deprive me of my property and lot,
Remove my person, force me by duress,
To where the land shan't bear me, I care not.
For I am unencumbered by oppression,
Nor canst thou wrest the sky from my possession.
Though I be exiled to the endless dark,
And though they tell the world I'll not return;
Though thou may'st fan the flame or set the spark
That seas may boil and that the land may burn;
My will's my own, and so the skies shall be --
And neither wilt thou ever take from me.
Now nowhere can I be, since Peace I found,
But mine is that which lies above the ground.
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