Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUR MARK - MY MARK, by MABEL MARGET RAVENSCRAFT


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YOUR MARK - MY MARK, by                    
First Line: The children skip
Last Line: Your mark -- my mark on life's clear face.
Subject(s): Aging


The children skip
And blithely slip
Along Life's years,
Forgetting tears.
For childhood days are long, long days
And never filled with happy ways.

Youth comes along,
The will grows strong.
Time passes fast;
Age comes at last --
A crown to those who do their best,
A time for quiet and for rest.

Ready? Never!
Youth reigns ever
In hearts so stout
No fear can rout
The enduring spark that carries on
And lives when life itself is gone.

When we are young
Life's just begun.
With days stretched long
Our faith is strong, --
As strong as we will let it be,
Enduring to eternity.

When we are old
And not so bold,
We carry on
As Youth has gone,
On paths that we so long have trod;
With fear or courage, face our God.

Push not aside
The patient stride
Of day on day
Along Life's way.
For as we live these golden days
We build a fear, or trust, or praise.

So let us pray
Just, day by day,
In quiet trust
That God is just,
To bravely reach out to that goal --
Its crown -- a man's Immortal Soul.

This day is done.
Low falls the sun.
Life's journey over
For each rover.
But surely, as the morrow's sun,
No span of life is ever done.

So as we build
The days are filled.
We mark the years
With joy or tears.
Time passes -- but cannot erase
Your mark -- my mark on Life's clear face.





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