Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EAGLE SONNETS: 8, by CLEMENT WOOD


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EAGLE SONNETS: 8, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faith is the dream that things known false are true
Last Line: Yet we shall find no truer guide than he.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


Faith is the dream that things known false are true:
Truth is our feeble vision in the dark;
Love, that supremest pleasure men pursue,
Is life's device to shield an undimmed spark.
Right is a thing of person and of season,
Justice the sagging of a rusty scale;
And we need only watch the cheater, Reason,
To see how man's last anchorage must fail.
Faith is a vision we must cling to still:
Truth is a god to serve, although we die.
Love is the dear controller of our will,
Justice and right must ring in every cry.
Though Reason let our craft drift out to sea,
Yet we shall find no truer guide than he.





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