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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOLDED POWER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow can wait
Last Line: To a clearer light.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Sorrow can wait
Last Line: To a clearer light.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
SORROW can wait,
For there is magic in the calm estate
Of grief; lo, where the dust complies
Wisdom lies.
Sorrow can rest
Indifferent, with her head upon her breast;
Idle and hushed, guarded from fears;
Content with tears.
Sorrow can bide,
With sealed lids and hands unoccupied.
Sorrow can fold her latent might,
Dwelling with night.
But Sorrow will rise
From her dream of sombre and hushed eternities.
Lifting a Child, she will softly move
With a mother's love.
She will softly rise.
Her embrace the dying will recognize,
Lifting them gently through strange delight
To a clearer light.
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