Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNG ON A BY-WAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL


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First Line: What of all the will to do
Last Line: Love has found itself the whole.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Truth; Optimism


WHAT of all the will to do?
It has vanished long ago,
For a dream-shaft pierced it through
From the Unknown Archer's bow

What of all the soul to think?
Some one offered it a cup
Filled with a diviner drink,
And the flame has burned it up.

What of all the hope to climb?
Only in the self we grope
To the misty end of time:
Truth has put an end to hope.

What of all the heart to love?
Sadder than for will or soul,
No light lured it on above;
Love has found itself the whole.





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