Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAITH, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN



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FAITH, by                    
First Line: I do not know when I shall go on - on
Last Line: Reveals a paradise that gave it birth?
Subject(s): Future Life; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


I do not know when I shall go on—on.
Some pass like falling pink-cupped buds in spring.
Some stay on to the end, like forms that cling
After November's russet leaves are gone.
Nor what mysterious gifts await me there,
Whether a meadow filled with asphodel,
A milk-white charger, or I climb from hell
To Heaven's minaret by golden stair.

I only know that I have seen the dawn,
With rose-cloud linings, amethyst, afloat,
And the young moon, a curved and radiant boat,
Riding the windy skies at early morn.
Seeing such beauty, who could doubt the earth
Reveals a paradise that gave it birth?





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