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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE SONG, by DOROTHY MCFARLANE
First Line: Out of all splendor that there is
Last Line: No one can own it.
Subject(s): Fire
First Line: Out of all splendor that there is
Last Line: No one can own it.
Subject(s): Fire
Out of all splendor that there is
Remember this ...
That, for a moment, before day has dwindled
To dark, the sun is hugely kindled
And lights our world with a great, blazing fire,
A furious glory and torment of light
Before night.
So, now, no matter what happens if desire
Be quenched untimely, yet our moment was
When life and love were pure and clear as glass,
Touched by a faint reflection of God's being
For all men's seeing.
You were a witness also, who walked through it,
You knew it.
Whatever we know again, whatever
Sorrow and pain and grief may do to us, what fever
May burn, it was ours more beautifully, the splendor --
therefore, be tender.
And never deny it, nor shake your head, for you have known it.
No one can own it.
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