FOREBODING sudden of untoward change, A tight'ning clasp on everything held dear, A moan of waters wild and strange, A whelming horror near; And, 'midst the thund'rous din a voice of doom, -- "Make way for me, O Life, for Death make room! "I come like the whirlwind rude, 'Gainst all thou hast cherished warring; I come like the flaming flood From a crater's mouth outpouring; I come like the avalanche gliding free -- And the Power that sent thee forth, sends me! "Where thou hast builded with strength secure, My hand shall spread disaster; Wheret hou hast barr'd me, with forethought sure, Shall ruin flow the faster; I come to gather where thou hast sowed, -- But I claim of thee nothing thou hast not owed! "On my mission of mercy forth I go Where the Lord of Being sends me; His will is the only will I know, And my strength is the strength He lends me; Thy loved ones I hide 'neath my waters dim, But I cannot hide them away from Him!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A FRIEND WRITING ON CABARET DANCERS by EZRA POUND THE DOVE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO MY NOSE by ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER THE EARL O' QUARTERDECK by GEORGE MACDONALD EPIGRAM: PERJURY by ROBERT NUGENT RECOLLECTION by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH AT THE FIRESIDE by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS |