Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HEAVENLY WAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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First Line: The heavenly way! The narrow path that leads
Last Line: And peace celestial with the morning star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Heaven; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Paradise


THE heavenly way! The narrow path that leads
Where gulf and steep and burning desert bar,
Till, high and clear, it gains the golden meads
And the soft radiance of the morning star.

What dost thou care, O Soul, for present gloom,
The wind's wild tumult and the surging sea?
Bear thyself grandly through the darkest doom,
Thou heir of all that was and is to be.

Only hold fast to heaven! The black night speeds;
The shadows vanish where the dawn gleams far;
And lo! the rapture of the golden meads,
And peace celestial with the morning star!





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