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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ANSWER, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "who would not go' / with buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal"
Last Line: "seeking, by faith, beyond this clouded air, / that land so fair!"
Subject(s): Death;heaven; "dead, The;paradise;
First Line: "who would not go' / with buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal"
Last Line: "seeking, by faith, beyond this clouded air, / that land so fair!"
Subject(s): Death;heaven; "dead, The;paradise;
"Who would not go"
With buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal,
Which opens to the land we long to know?
Where shall be satisfied the soul's immortal,
Where we shall drop the wearying and the woe
In resting so?
"Ah, who would fear?"
Since, sometimes through the distant pearly portal,
Unclosing, to some happy soul a-near,
We catch a gleam of glorious light immortal,
And strains of heavenly music faintly hear,
Breathing good cheer!
"Who would endure"
To walk in doubt and darkness with misgiving,
When he whose tender promises are sure --
The Crucified, the Lord, the Ever-living --
Keeps us those "mansions" evermore secure
By waters pure?
Oh, wondrous land!
Fairer than all our spirits fairest dreaming:
"Eye hath not seen," no heart can understand
The things prepared, the cloudless radiance streaming
How lovingly we wait our Lord's command --
His opening hand!
O dear ones there!
Whose voices, hushed, have left our pathway lonely,
We come erelong, your blessed home to share;
We take the guiding hand, we trust it only --
Seeing, by faith, beyond this clouded air,
That land so fair!
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