Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE


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LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 2, by                    
First Line: As those who rest from toil we end our years
Last Line: "light breaks, god lives! Love reigns eternally."
Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


"As those who rest from toil we end our years,
Reluctantly,—content. The evening hours
Are filled with satisfying joys, as flowers
Still hold at night the noonday's gold. Our tears
Are tears that cleanse," thus speaks, unbowed by fear
The Second One. "We lose ere it is ours
To find. Through weakest flesh God full empowers
The spirit strong to stand. Death more endears
The good of yesterdays. In ashes lies
The house our hands had built so hopefully,
And from its ruins, in stately splendor rise
New mansions for the soul. Unbound and free
We go to meet the dawn. Years end, Time dies,
Light breaks, God lives! Love reigns eternally."





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