Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNDERSTANDING, by ANNA HOLM POGUE


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UNDERSTANDING, by                    
First Line: No longer drab and meaningless, at last
Last Line: For love is truth, and it has set me free.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


No longer drab and meaningless, at last
The tapestry of life became complete.
Your voice, like rolling organ-music, sweet
And deep, revealed all sophistries amassed
Before, were antechamber to the vast
Cathedral, love. Those years now obsolete --
All wasted, futile -- lay beneath our feet.
Eternity was now, there was no past.

Though honor sent me back where duty lay,
Still, high above the moaning monotone
Of turning wheels which marked the miles, for me
The paean rose: "Love is; it lives alway;"
And never more can prison bars be known,
For love is truth, and it has set me free.





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