ONE walks secure in wisdom-trodden ways That lead to peaceful nights through happy days -- Health, fame, friends, children, and a gentle wife, All Youth can covet or Experience praise, And Use withal to crown the ease of life. Ah, thirsting for another day, How dread the fear If he but knew the danger near! Another, with some old inheritance Of Fate, unmitigated yet by Chance, -- Condemned by those he loves, with no appeal To his own fearful heart, that ever pants For newer circlings of the cruel Wheel! Ah, thirsting for another day, What need of fear If he but knew the help that's near? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GARDEN YEAR by SARA COLERIDGE NIGHTMARE, FR. IOLANTHE by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT by JOHN ARMSTRONG PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 56. AL-WALI by EDWIN ARNOLD TO THE HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LADY, THE LADY TASBURGH by WILLIAM BASSE |