Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IF WE COULD BE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON


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IF WE COULD BE, by                    
First Line: If we could see a beckoning gleam ahead
Last Line: Our eyes grow keener searching for a spark?
Subject(s): Vision


If we could see a beckoning gleam ahead --
On this strange, winding road that we call life --
Revealing heights that we might climb -- instead
Of groping here and there through places rife
With danger . . . fighting every day for standing room,
And staking all we have on circumstance;
Oh, then, what splendor unreleased might loom
On paths which often seem controlled by chance.

And yet -- no seed can choose where it will grow,
And where sweet perfume of the rose shall greet
The traveler, the rose cannot foreknow, --
But nature never yet has met defeat.
Our steps, perhaps, are firmer in the dark --
Our eyes grow keener searching for a spark?





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