Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN ILLUSION, by MARGHERITA GARDNER FETTER


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AN ILLUSION, by                    
First Line: If I could have seen you depart
Last Line: Our souls thrilled as they smiled to meet.
Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love; Separation; Isolation


If I could have seen you depart
And known the touch of your hand,
While wraiths of grief surged at my heart,
Could I have waited the angel band?

If I knew the celestial glen to search,
The way to follow that leads to you,
I'd come when the night birds from leafy perch
Call through the twilight the way we knew.

If my longing soul could understand
Why dreams of life's visioning are no more
Than an empty shell from the strand
As it wails from its long-lost shore;

If I tremble with love's suppressed yearning,
Waiting in wonderment for the day
When to my beloved's arm I will cling,
While on memories' harp a faith note we play;

If when the yesterdays are today,
And our song of life, love's refrain;
Oh! then how joyous shall be our lay,
Its lilt ne'er again lost in life's pain.

If it be true, death is but a Way,
Then I have looked in shadowy eyes so sweet;
And trembling, enrapt in a strange ray,
Our souls thrilled as they smiled to meet.





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