Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I/Transition

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TRANSITION

AWAKE my soul!  Thou shalt not creep and crawl—  An earth-bound creature, pitiful and small, Whose weak ambition knows no higher goal! O wistful soul, When morning sings,  Forgetful of the night,  Bathe all thy restless being in the light; Till 'neath the mesh that close about thee clings Thou feel thy wings! Then find life's door,—  Trusting the instinct true  That points to Heaven and the aerial blue, A wingèd thing impelled forevermore To soar and soar!