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1884–1933

“If I Must Go”

Sara Teasdale

If I must go to heaven's end Climbing the ages like a stair, Be near me and forever bend With the same eyes above me there;

Time will fly past us like leaves flying, We shall not heed, for we shall be Beyond living, beyond dying, Knowing and known unchangeably.

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