From My Present Mountaintop
From my present mountaintop
I look back whence I came;
An unexpected passage through
Some bleak and rough terrain.
I look on what you did for me;
The years of borrowed days,
The sacrifice of liberty
That only love repays.
The grace with which you gave yourselves,
Though not without great cost,
Not blaming me for fortune's gift
Nor counting what was lost.
I feel a flood of gratitude
Like sunlight through my heart,
A light that lights the candle of
The life about to start.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXXABAB XXXX XCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
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