Now what can she peer forward to again Unless it have some element abreast With him and her and their dark, haunted quest Which mingled each with each in mystic rain, So fragile, yet imperious whose grain, It forced them blind, and blinder, till the test Divided them apart, brought forth the guest Whose consecrated breathing shared their pain! Is what she sees of their posterity A replica, for which she left ajar Her window, hopeful of the prodigy: The two they were emerge the one they are? What else need she look forward to than this, Who greets in them some trait of hers or his? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY by RICHARD CORBET SHE CAME AND WENT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A GIRL OF POMPEII by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN THE CLOUDS: SOCRATES' EXPERIMENTS by ARISTOPHANES THE RAJPOOT WIFE by EDWIN ARNOLD |