Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PERFECT DAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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THE PERFECT DAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blast has swept the clouds away
Last Line: As yester-evening's mist and rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Beauty; Calm; Day; Death; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The


THE blast has swept the clouds away,
The gloom, the mist, the rain;
Serene and blue is all the sky
Save for a white cloud floating high,
A lone, celestial argosy
That dares the azure main;
And, light as wafts of Eden blow,
The zephyrs wander to and fro.

What do I care that yester-night
The wind was loud and chill?
Now earth is lapt in sunny calm;
The woods, the fields, exhale their balm;
And breeze and brook and bird a psalm
Sing sweet, by vale and hill; —
What do I care that skies were cold?
To-day all heaven is flushed with gold.

O when the blast of death has blown
The clouds of time away,
So may the shadows of our years —
The gloom of doubts and griefs and fears
And dark regrets and bitter tears —
Fade in God's perfect day!
And seem as slight and brief and vain
As yester-evening's mist and rain.





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