SO, BACK again? -- And is your errand done, Unfailing one? How quick the gray world, at your morning look, Turns wonder book! Come in -- O guard and guest; Come, O you breathless, from a lifelong quest! Search my heart; and if a comfort be, Ah, comfort me. You eloquent one, you best Of all diviners, so to trace The weather gleams upon a face; With wordless, querying paw, Adventuring the law! You shaggy Loveliness, What call was it? -- What dream beyond a guess, Lured you, gray ages back, From that lone bivouac Of the wild pack? -- Was it your need or ours? The calling trail Of Faith that should not fail? Of hope dim understood? -- That you should follow our poor humanhood, Only because you would! To search and circle -- follow and outstrip, Men and their fellowship; And keep your heart no less, Your to-and-fro of hope and wistfulness, Through all world-weathers and against all odds! Can you forgive us, now? -- Your fallen gods? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY MOTHER LEFT ME by KAREN SWENSON THE GREAT CAROUSAL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE BALLAD WHICH ANNE ASKEW MADE AND SANG WHEN SHE WAS IN NEWGATE by ANNE ASKEWE NO MASTER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES PURSUIT AND POSSESSION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH VILLANELLE: AU RETOUR DU PRINTEMPS by PHILIP SCHUYLER ALLEN |