Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEMORY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN


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First Line: My home is now a thousand miles away
Last Line: Lord, in that strait, the judge! Remember me!
Subject(s): Faith; Sea Voyages; Belief; Creed


MY home is now a thousand miles away;
Yet in my thoughts its every image fair
Rises as keen, as I still linger'd there,
And, turning me, could all I loved survey.
And so, upon Death's unaverted day,
As I speed upwards, I shall on me bear,
And in no breathless whirl, the things that were,
And duties given, and ends I did obey.
And, when at length I reach the Throne of Power
Ah! still unscared, I shall in fulness see
The vision of my past innumerous deeds,
My deep heart-courses, and their motive-seeds,
So to gaze on till the red dooming hour.
Lord, in that strait, the Judge! remember me!





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