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Sara Teasdale

Like barley bending
 In low fields by the sea,
Singing in hard wind
 Ceaselessly;

Like barley bending
 And rising again,
So would I, unbroken,
 Rise from pain;

So would I softly,
 Day long, night long,
Change my sorrow
 Into song.

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From Flame and Shadow | Macmillian, 1920

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