Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE UNIVERSALITY OF GRIEF; DRAMATIC SKETCH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE


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First Line: I grant you that our fate is terrible
Last Line: Wherein he rules hath murmurous caves of sleep.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


I GRANT you that our fate is terrible,
Bitter as gall. What then? Will lamentation,
Childish complaint, everlasting wailings,
Grief, groans, despair, help to amend our doom?
Glance o'er the world -- the world is full of pain
Akin to ours. If some dark spirit touched
Our vision to miraculous clearness, sights
Would meet our eyes, at which the coldest heart
Might weep blood-tears; there's not a moment passes
Which doth not bear its load of agonies
Out to the dim Eternity beyond;
The primal curse of earth, with heavier weight,
Descends on special victims; yet, bethink you,
All sorrow hath its bounds, o'er which there stands
That friend of misery, gentle-hearted Death.
Balms of oblivion holds he, and the realm
Wherein he rules hath murmurous caves of sleep.





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