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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VICTORY OF FAITH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON First Line: What did the sobbing night wind say Last Line: "heaven is true, be brave, be brave." Subject(s): Faith; God; Native Americans - Religion; Belief; Creed | |||
What did the sobbing night wind say As it bore my thoughts across that bay Where dying comrades waved their hand And vanished into the shadow land? Each surge and swell was a funeral knell And only tolled "Farewell, farewell!" And the word was wafted, wail on wail, Like a wounded wind in a tattered sail, Till my heart grew sick of the grief-blown bay, And I looked beyond to the Gates of Day, And I cried, "O God, touch thou mine ear At the turn o' the tide I wait to hear!" Now, this is the message that floats to me On the wings of Faith from the Infinite sea, Fresh from the lips we laid in the sod, Now limpid with life and the glory of God Singing and ringing it crosses the wave, "Heaven is true, be brave, be brave." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 4 by MARK JARMAN QUIA ABSURDUM by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET TO FORTUNE by LUCY AIKEN JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS by ROBERT LOWELL RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION by MINA LOY A HUSTLE FOR THE FAIR by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON |
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