When you were born, beloved, was your soul
New made by God to match your body's flower,
And were they both at one same precious hour
Sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole?
Or had your soul since dim creation burned,
A star in some still region of the sky,
That leaping earthward, left its place on high
And to your little new-born body yearned?
No words can tell in what celestial hour
God made your soul and gave it mortal birth,
Nor in the disarray of all the stars
Is any place so sweet that such a flower
Might linger there until thro' heaven's bars,
It heard God's voice that bade it down to earth.
Soul's Birth
Sara Teasdale
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Poem topics: birth, perfect, sky, star, voice, earth, sweet, precious, high, match, celestial, flower, heaven, I love you, I miss you, place, body, god, soul, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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