Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEYOND THE MORTAL, by ELEANOR HUGHES


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BEYOND THE MORTAL, by                    
First Line: Whence springs this feeling for the tragic world
Last Line: But the self-sacrificing soul of love?
Subject(s): God


Whence springs this feeling for the tragic world,
This elemental pity, vein of sorrow,
Emotion overwhelmingly unfurled
To clothe man's naked suffering of tomorrow?
Strange sympathies well from the human heart
Confronted by this spectacle of life;
The Stranger that's within dwells not apart
From all the pain and stress of mortal strife.

Whence comes this dream for peace and brotherhood
But from the Great Heart of the Universe?
Who suffers evil to the end of good
Bestows a blessing and annuls the curse.
What is this spirit of divine compassion
That animates creation, dwells above
The common level of our hates and passion
But the self-sacrificing soul of Love?





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