On the day that the world shall end my dear I shall stand at the judgment bar Your name on my lips, your face in my heart Your love as my guiding star, And then I shall say to the God above As he looks through my soul for sin Only one great fault You will find, dear Lord, Inscribed on the scroll within. I have tended Your sheep and nurtured Your lambs, I have comforted hearts in despair, I have kept the commandments with never a pause Save the one You see written there, But You are my Judge and I hope You can find Some grace for a flaw so grim For I loved a mortal far more than my life And forfeited heaven for him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER by COUNTEE CULLEN RUINES OF ROME by JOACHIM DU BELLAY THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 5. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 5. SHE THINKS OF THE FAITHFUL ONE by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAD AND CHEERFUL SONGS by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |