Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: When shall I join the blessed company
Last Line: Whose slow, eternal ebb my bark shall bear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


WHEN shall I join the blessed company
Of those this barren world to me denies?
When shall I wake to the new day's surprise,
Beyond the murmur of death's moaning sea,
In that glad home where my best loved ones be;
And know that I have found my Paradise,
Finding again the love that never dies
The heart's dear welcome, biding there for me?

I wait alone upon life's wind-swept beach --
The waves are high -- the sea is wild and wide --
Yet Death, bold pilot, all their wrath shall dare,
And guide me to the shore I fain would reach: --
Even now I hear the swift, incoming tide,
Whose slow, eternal ebb my bark shall bear.







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