Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by WILLIAM MERRILL VORIES


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LIFE, by                    
First Line: Life is too brief
Last Line: Or soar on wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vories, W. M.
Subject(s): Mortality; Religion; Theology


Life is too brief
Between the budding and the falling leaf.
Between the seed time and the golden sheaf,
For hate and spite.
We have no time for malice and for greed;
Therefore, with love make beautiful the deed;
Fast speeds the night.

Life is too swift
Between the blossom and the white snow's drift,
Between the silence and the lark's uplift,
For bitter words.
In kindness and in gentleness our speech
Must carry messages of hope, and reach
The sweetest chords.

Life is too great
Between the infant's and the man's estate,
Between the clashing of earth's strife and fate,
For petty things.
Lo! we shall yet who creep with cumbered feet
Walk glorious over heaven's golden street,
Or soar on wings!





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