Poem for Earth Day

Earth by Jessie Goddard Broman

I am one with the earth that I love

And from her

Came to be;

From the dust of the desert am I

And the salt

Of the sea.

Where the mountains are high in their pride

I am lifted

And swung;

All my soul by their pinnacle held,

To their side

I have clung.

From the streets of the town I must go

To the soil

And the stone;

There is need that I touch and renew

All my strength

From their own.

When the dust of my body shall join

With the dust

Of the earth,

I shall then know the cycle complete

Which began

At my birth.