Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBRANCE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD


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First Line: It lies on our life like the stars on the sea
Last Line: Life's woe from our weariful faces.
Subject(s): Memory; Shadows


IT lies on our life like the stars on the sea,
Like dew on the face of the flower,
Like shade on the sun-dazzled stretch of the lea,
Like snow on the storm-beaten boughs of the tree,
Like light on the wings of the shower.

It comes as comes faith to the nun on her knees,
Or day-dawn to timorous sky.
It thrills through our souls as in summer the breeze
Descends on the slumbering green of the trees,
And stirs them to trembling reply.

From iris-hued realms of the shadowy past,
Its wonderful flight it comes winging,
With odours of blossoms that drooped in the blast,
With star-beams that vanished when skies were o'ercast,
And music that hushed in the singing.

And scars of old sorrows, ghosts of dead pain
That left us all faint and weak hearted,
With droppings of tears that were once as hot rain,
These too doth it bring us, and bringing again,
Reveals that their sting is departed.

It links the pale past and the present in one
With ladders of vacillant light,
Along which, dim-footed and opal-robed, run
Hand in hand with to-day all the days that are done,
Crowned each with its crown of delight.

It cleaves with a transient rainbow ray
The clouds of Earth's tempest-torn places,
And does for us, living, what Death does one day,
When bending above us he kisses away
Life's woe from our weariful faces.





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