AH, yes, the chapter ends to-day; We even lay the book away; But oh, how sweet the moments sped Before the final page was read! We tried to read between the lines The Author's deep-concealed designs; But scant reward such search secures; You saw my heart and I saw yours. The Master, -- He who penned the page And bade us read it, -- He is sage: And what he orders, you and I Can but obey, nor question why. We read together and forgot The world about us. Time was not. Unheeded and unfelt, it fled. We read and hardly knew we read. Until beneath a sadder sun, We came to know the book was done. Then, as our minds were but new lit, It dawned upon us what was writ; And we were startled. In our eyes, Looked forth the light of great surprise. Then as a deep-toned tocsin tolls, A voice spoke forth: "Behold your souls!" I do, I do. I cannot look Into your eyes: so close the book. But brought it grief or brought it bliss, No other page shall read like this! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA by ROBERT BROWNING THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LEISURE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 37. TO ONE WHO WOULD 'REMAIN FRIENDS' by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT IN AN AEROPLANE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE SOTTO VOCE by HAROLD MARTIN BOWMAN |