DREAM not, O Soul, that easy is the task Thus set before thee. If it proves at length, As well it may, beyond thy natural strength, Faint not, despair not. As a child may ask A father, pray the Everlasting Good For light and guidance midst the subtle snares Of sin thick planted in life's thoroughfares, For spiritual strength and moral hardihood; Still listening, through the noise of time and sense, To the still whisper of the Inward Word; Bitter in blame, sweet in approval, heard, Itself its own confirming evidence: To health of soul a voice to cheer and please, To guilt the wrath of the Eumenides. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE IN THE WINDS by RICHARD HOVEY THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS CANADA by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE FUGITIVE by PRINGLE BARRET TO THE DEAD by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |