Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POSSIBILITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP


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First Line: As day doth live beyond the sunset skies
Last Line: And 'mid the wheels of fate a living god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny


As day doth live beyond the sunset skies
So life may wait us at the silent grave:
Not windless is the sea because there rave
Not always the great storm-wind's harmonies.
There may be light too strong for earthly eyes;
There may be hands to succour and to save
From Death's indifferent o'erwhelming wave;
Nay, Death may lift to some divine surprise!

There may be music beyond instruments,
And Spring for ev'ry frost-nipt shapeless clod,
There may be mightier love sacraments
Than e'er were seen on consecrated sod;
A man there may be with Christ's lineaments
And 'mid the wheels of Fate a living God.





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