Unnumbered sorrows, woes beyond belief, A world aflame with hate and gray with grief, -- @3"Look Beyond!"@1 This little life so short -- a span at best, And that short span a torment of unrest, -- @3"Look Beyond!"@1 So many gone, -- our bravest and our best, -- The Golden Fields of Youth laid bare and waste, -- @3"Look Beyond!"@1 Wrong fills the world with foul iniquity, @3"God's grace is more than man's obliquity,@1 -- @3Look Beyond!"@1 What can Life give to recompense such loss? @3"Christ's path of sorrow led Him to the cross,@1 -- @3Look Beyond!"@1 Before these horrors Hope and Love are dumb. @3"Hold to your Faith! God's best is still to come,@1 -- @3Look Beyond!"@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 5 by EZRA POUND HIS MOTHER'S SERVICE TO OUR LADY by FRANCOIS VILLON FUZZY-WUZZY' (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) by RUDYARD KIPLING EASTER 1916 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT by MARIA ABDY THE DOVE by ABUL HASAN OF SEVILLE A DEDICATION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |