Poems (Lassen)/A Thought

by May C. Lassen

For works with similar titles, see A Thought.

A THOUGHT

WERE I to kill the flesh
 To set my spirit free,
Think'st thou, that ne'er in Heaven
 A place for me would be?

Would God be so unkind
 Ne'er to forgive the deed,
If I my tortured soul
 From earthly clay had freed?