Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORECAST, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY


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First Line: Take back, take back the harsh word now
Last Line: How couldst thou bear the vision?
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Vision


Take back, take back the harsh word now;
Consider it unspoken;
Break, break, though late, the angry vow
That better far were broken.

The stream of death will bear away
The object of thy passion;
Oh, then obliterate today
The thought of his transgression.

Forget the little ill, revealed
As though by hate's intention;
Remember all the good, concealed
As though by love's invention.

The hour may come when thou wilt stand
Unsheltered and unshriven;
Forgiveness' price is in thy hand,
Today let it be given.

With hatred in the heart at last
Bethink thee of his terror
Whose alienated gaze were cast
On love's eternal mirror.

Thou might'st endure the sight of woe—
The scoffing—the derision—
But where thou dost expect to go
How couldst thou bear the vision?





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