Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track- Because that Death is final, However first it be, This instant be suspended Above Mortality- Significance that each has lived The other to detect Discovery not God himself Could now annihilate Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you, who were Existence Yourself forgot to live- The "Life that is" will then have been A thing I never knew- As Paradise fictitious Until the Realm of you- The "Life that is to be," to me, A Residence too plain Unless in my Redeemer's Face I recognize your own- Of Immortality who doubts He may exchange with me Curtailed by your obscuring Face Of everything but He- Of Heaven and Hell I also yield The Right to reprehend To whoso would commute this Face For his less priceless Friend. If "God is Love" as he admits We think that me must be Because he is a "jealous God" He tells us certainly If "All is possible with" him As he besides concedes He will refund us finally Our confiscated Gods- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RETRIBUTION by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU THE LAST MAN: LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES SONG OF OWL'S HEAD by NORMAN WILLIAMS BINGHAM LA QUINQUE RUE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AND ONE SHALL LIVE IN TWO by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS |