Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHALL I LOOK BACK?, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: From some dim height of being, undescried
Last Line: Shall I look back and wonder at my fears?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Past


FROM some dim height of being, undescried,
Shall I look back and trace the weary way
By which my feet are journeying to-day, --
The toilsome path that climbs the mountain-side
Or leads into the valley, sun-denied,
Where, through the darkness, hapless wanderers stray,
Unblessed, uncheered, ungladdened by a ray
Of certitude their errant steps to guide?

Shall I look back, and see the great things small;
The toilsome path, God's training for my feet,
The pains that never had been worth my tears?
Will some great light of rapture, bathing all,
Make by-gone woe seem joy; past bitter, sweet?
Shall I look back and wonder at my fears?





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