“God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.”

—  Joyce Kilmer

"Main Street"
Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
Context: God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.
Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown,
But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.

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