OUR life is like a cloudy sky, midst mountains, When in the blast the watery vapours float. Now gleams of light pass o'er the lovely hills, And make the purple heath and russet bracken Seem lovelier, and the grass of brighter green; And now a giant shadow hides them all. And thus it is, that in all @3earthly@1 distance On which the sight can fix, still fear and hope, Gloom and alternate sunshine, each succeeds. So of another and an unknown land We see the radiance of the clouds reflected, Which is the future life beyond the grave! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FIDDLER JONES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MINSTREL OF THE SUN by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 29. ALL NOT WORTH A REWARD by PHILIP AYRES CHARACTERS: MARTHA JENNINGS by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SATISFIED by HESTER A. BENEDICT SING A SONG by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE NORTH SEA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |