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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECOMPENSE, by EDITH CURTIS DE LONG
First Line: Fate hath decreed our lives be lived apart
Last Line: For love like ours, there's glad eternity.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
First Line: Fate hath decreed our lives be lived apart
Last Line: For love like ours, there's glad eternity.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
Fate hath decreed our lives be lived apart,
But oh, my dear, you're safe within my heart,
And oft in lonely watches of the night
To you my spirit takes its winged flight.
What matter, though your face I seldom see,
Doth not the Soul of you belong to me?
And will not God at last with love Divine
Give unto me the Jewel that is mine?
Of small moment the wretched years will be;
For love like ours, there's glad Eternity.
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