On the day that the world shall end my dear I shall stand at the judgment bar Your name on my lips, your face in my heart Your love as my guiding star, And then I shall say to the God above As he looks through my soul for sin Only one great fault You will find, dear Lord, Inscribed on the scroll within. I have tended Your sheep and nurtured Your lambs, I have comforted hearts in despair, I have kept the commandments with never a pause Save the one You see written there, But You are my Judge and I hope You can find Some grace for a flaw so grim For I loved a mortal far more than my life And forfeited heaven for him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN QUEST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE by SIDNEY LANIER BALLROOM DARK by CLARENCE MAJOR SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |