A Prayer (Flame and Shadow)

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A Prayer  (1920) 
by Sara Teasdale

When I am dying, let me know
That I loved the blowing snow
     Although it stung like whips;
That I loved all lovely things
And I tried to take their stings
     With gay unembittered lips;
That I loved with all my strength,
To my soul's full depth and length,
     Careless if my heart must break,
That I sang as children sing
Fitting tunes to everything,
     Loving life for its own sake.


PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923.

The author died in 1933, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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