Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TRAIL'S END, by BEULAH MAY


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TRAIL'S END, by                    
First Line: Is this the end of all adventuring
Last Line: What is death's meaning but life just begun?
Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


Is this the end of all adventuring:
Of golden mornings when I stopped to gaze
Across a mountain shrouded with blue haze;
Of ardent summers and their blossoming;
Of studios at dusk and songs to sing
By laughing artists gathered round the blaze;
Bright seas of amethyst and chrysoprase;
The desert wind; the hot blood's clamoring?

What if the road has darkened to the west:
The friends I love, their high endeavors done,
Leave brush and palette and slip off to rest,
The colors dim they blazoned in the sun?
Here is the end where all is manifest --
What is Death's meaning but Life just begun?





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