Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BOOK, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON


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First Line: Softly I closed the book as in a dream
Last Line: I shall work better all my other days.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


Softly I closed the book as in a dream
And let its echoes linger to redeem
Silence with music, darkness with its gleam.

That day I worked no more. I could not bring
My hands to toil, my thoughts to trafficking.
A new light shone on every common thing.

Celestial glories flamed before my gaze.
That day I worked no more. But, to God's praise,
I shall work better all my other days.





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