I said, "I will take my life <br />And throw it away; <br />I who was fire and song <br />Will turn to clay." <br /> <br />"I will lie no more in the night <br />With shaken breath, <br />I will toss my heart in the air <br />To be caught by Death." <br /> <br />But out of the night I heard, <br />Like the inland sound of the sea, <br />The hushed and terrible sob <br />Of all humanity. <br /> <br />Then I said, "Oh who am I <br />To scorn God to his face? <br />I will bow my head and stay <br />And suffer with my race."<br /><br />Sara Teasdale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/testament-3/
