Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE KEEPERS OF THE TREASURE, by RHYS CARPENTER


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THE KEEPERS OF THE TREASURE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because we dare behold the sun
Last Line: Of an unguessed awakening.
Subject(s): Spring; Strength; Treasures


BECAUSE we dare behold the sun
With eyes unshaken, unafraid,
And watch the swinging stars go on
Across their sombre bridge of shade,

Because for us the singing birds
Are voices of a world unseen,
Because all sounds are singing words
With golden melody between,

Because for us the winter wind
Is our own cry of warning sent
Across the world made dark and blind
And grown a-cold with long lament,

Because the chill grey heights are ours
And ours the flame-encircled deep,
The striving souls of trees and flowers,
The calling visions of our sleep,

Therefore for us no ashen pyres
Fall grey with self-consuming heat,
But in our heart the quenchless fires
Of strength and aspiration meet.

Therefore for us still burns the gleam
Caught from the beacons of the Spring,
And in our eyes still sleeps the dream
Of an unguessed awakening.





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