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I WANT TO LIVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SHALL BE ALL TOO STILL SOME DAY
Last Line: MY BIT OF ASHES TO THE DUST.
Subject(s): CARPE DIEM;
I shall be all too still some day
But now I choose an equal chance
To strum the scale of ecstasy
And sound the gamut of romance.

I seek no cushioned way to love
I want to suffer, if I must
To be consumed, and then to give
My bit of ashes to the dust.



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