Chapter 52
soul's birth by sarah teasdale read for librivox dot org by christie cruise of wellington kansas soul's birth when you were born beloved was your soul new made by god to match your body's flower and were they both at one same precious hour sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole or had your soul since dim creation burned a star in some still region of the sky that leaping earthward left its place on high and to your little new-born body yearned no words can tell in what celestial hour god made your soul and gave it mortal birth nor in the disarray of all the stars is any place so sweet that such a flower might linger there until through heaven's bars
it heard god's voice that bade it down to earth this recording is in the public domain
