Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TIME WILL COME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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Last Line: Through endless time
Subject(s): Time


The time will come
When, though the hottest fire on earth should leap
To warm the currents through thy veins that creep.
No August flame or mild September glow
Thy wintry heart and ice-bound blood shall
know.
Hast thou the fire of love, devotion's heat.
An eager, flaming soul wherewith to meet
That chilling time?

The time will come
When, though the sweetest bells on earth should ring,
The noblest organ peal aiid chorus sing,
Men shout thy praise and love's wild pleading call,
Thou Shalt be deaf and distant from It all.
What hymn hast thou In store, what words of cheer.
What spirit voices for thy spirit ear
In that stin time?

The time will come
When, though the landscape roll its beauty far.
Though fair the skies and woods and rivers are.
Though dearest loving faces look on thee.
No gleam of all shall thy strained vision see.
Hast thou prepared some prospect of delight.
Some opening vistas for thy trembling aigfat
In that dark time?

Ah, if that time
Follow a lifetime filled with work and love.
Then, while the old world dies, the heavens above
Shall burst to warmth and fragrance, sight and sound.
While glad remembered faces flock around.
And strength comes back and more, and joy far more.
Skill, beauty, music, o'er and o'er and o'er.
Through endless time





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