Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY GODSON, by MILDRED HUXLEY First Line: They shall come back through heaven's bars Last Line: Calling you from the starlit skies. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties | ||||||||
THEY shall come back through Heaven's bars When June has filled the world with joy, And you are seeking playmates, boy, To share your Kingdom of the stars; Or part with you the bracken fronds Where golden armoured knights may ride, Or learn where baby rabbits hide, Or dabble in the silver ponds. O all the pipes of fairyland Shall give you royal welcoming And all the fairy bells shall ring And you will wander hand in hand. But through the music gay and sweet That fairies teach their chosen ones Shall sound an echo of the guns And high ambition's drum will beat. For they who died lest all that's good And beautiful and brave and free Should sink in Hell's obscurity, These claim you in a Brotherhood. The lot is fallen, O child, to you To finish all they had to leave, And by their sacrifice achieve The manifold desires they knew. And you shall feel their ardour burn Like flaming fires within your heart, In all your life they'll have a part And all their secrets you shall learn. They would have guided your young feet, Kind, but so far from boyhood's day, But death has found a surer way Of making comradeship complete. O all the pipes of fairyland Shall play for you, shall play for them, Their flame of radiant life will stem, Evil you scarce could understand. They'll bid you raise your wondering eyes, Till, far above you, you shall see The Beauty that they knew might be, Calling you from the starlit skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MORNING PAPER by KATHARINE LEE BATES FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914) by LAURENCE BINYON TRAFALGAR SQUARE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES 1914: 3. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE 1914: 4. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE BETWEEN THE LINES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RUPERT BROOKE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON SUBALTERNS: A SONG OF OXFORD by MILDRED HUXLEY |
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