PEACE is God's direct assurance To the souls that win release From this world of hard endurance -- Peace -- he tells us -- only Peace. There is Peace in lifeless matter -- There is Peace in dreamless sleep -- Will then Death our being shatter In annihilation's deep? Ask you this? O mortal trembler! Hear the Peace that Death affords -- For your God is no dissembler, Cheating you with double words: -- To this life's inquiring traveller, Peace of knowledge of all good; To the anxious truth-unraveller, Peace of wisdom understood: -- To the loyal wife, affection Towards her husband, free from fear, -- To the faithful friend, selection Of all memories kind and dear: -- To the lover, full fruition Of an unexhausted joy, -- To the warrior, crowned ambition, With no envy's base alloy: -- To the ruler, sense of action, Working out his great intent, -- To the prophet, satisfaction In the mission he was sent: -- To the poet, conscious glory Flowing from his Father's face: -- Such is Peace in holy story, Such is Peace in heavenly grace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAD I THE CHOICE (AFTER WALT WHITMAN) by GEORGE SANTAYANA BEFORE THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ODE TO THE CUCKOO by MICHAEL BRUCE THE WHITE WOMEN by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE SONNET: 22. TO THE SAME [CYRIACK SKINNER] by JOHN MILTON A SONNET by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN |