Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OPPORTUNITY, by LOIS MAHAVIER


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OPPORTUNITY, by                    
First Line: Not like the sunset do I fade and die
Last Line: But lo! I come again at close of day.
Subject(s): Opportunity


Not like the sunset do I fade and die,
When man has failed to greet me passing by;
But each day anew, his life I enter there,
Stretch forth glad hands, and open pastures fair;
Allure with siren smiles down paths of ease,
That will each longing of the soul appease.
Dimmer and dimmer, as he meditates,
I fade in distance, as he hesitates,
—Striving to prison bird's song in a cage—
Or glory of the rainbow's breadth to gauge—
Till, grasping the eternal truth that gives
Sustaining faith and courage while he lives;
Convinced that vision is the act's own seed,
Tremblingly steps forth to follow where I lead,
But lo! I fade in sunset's flaming red,
With burning memory of the words I said;
Deep in the abyss then he gropes his way,
But lo! I come again at close of day.





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