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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANGELIC GUIDANCE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these the tracks of some unearthly friend
Last Line: Yet. Not all hopeless, eye his boundless grace.
First Line: Are these the tracks of some unearthly friend
Last Line: Yet. Not all hopeless, eye his boundless grace.
ARE these the tracks of some unearthly Friend,
His foot-prints, and his vesture-skirts of light,
Who, as I talk with men, conforms aright
Their sympathetic words, or deeds that blend
With my hid thought; -- or stoops him to attend
My doubtful-pleading grief; -- or blunts the might
Of ill I see not; -- or in dreams of night
Figures the scope, in which what is will end?
Were I Christ's own, then fitly might I call
That vision real; for to the thoughtful mind
That walks with Him, He half unveils His face;
But, when on earth-stain'd souls such tokens fall,
These dare not claim as theirs what there they find,
Yet. not all hopeless, eye His boundless grace.
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