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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE AND HOPE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet, seer, philosopher, or friend
Last Line: Far off events beyond the gates of death.
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Optimism
First Line: The poet, seer, philosopher, or friend
Last Line: Far off events beyond the gates of death.
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Optimism
THE poet, seer, philosopher, or friend
Keeps watch o'er nature's guerdon, princely fair,
Some hope of things to come, eternal life.
One puts it in the present's vernal bloom,
And robs the loom of time of its reward.
Another seeks it in some distant clime,
Where heaven's chalice pours the wine of joy
Into the lap of fate. For you and me
It is the thrill of knowledge and of love,
That lumes the path of life, and binds therewith
Far off events beyond the gates of death.
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