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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 115, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: And sorrow serves not only to refine
Last Line: Shows grief to have been god's hallowing means of grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: And sorrow serves not only to refine
Last Line: Shows grief to have been god's hallowing means of grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness
And Sorrow serves not only to refine,
For Love leaps up with tenfold sympathy
To mitigate the suffering and the sin
That are a part of the divine decree,
In that foreshadowing of the life to be—
Where Pity with her love-illumined face
Shows Grief to have been God's hallowing means of Grace.
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