Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS


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A TWILIGHT MUSING, by                    
First Line: Ye who in this vain life
Last Line: Lighten and cheer?
Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight


YE who in this vain life
Once shared my joy and strife,
Where are ye all?
If as the stars ye shine,
Steeped in pure light Divine,
Ever on me and mine
May your beams fall!

When care or ills and fears
Quicken our mortal tears,
Wake high desires!
Yon silvery watchers lend
Heaven's delight as they bend;
So may our hearts ascend,
Lured by your fires!

When ye who view Earth's whole
Chance on a hapless soul
Faint and astray,
Rescue from mortal harm;
Bid hope all fear disarm;
Spend your divinest charm,
Your saintliest ray!

When vexed by rain and gale
Thro' the dark stormy veil
Skyward we turn,
May a kind rift reveal
What lorn star-seekers feel,
That true mid woe and weal
Heaven's sentries burn.

Yet tho' all hearts ye reach,
Angels of mercy, each
Has a charge set:
Vanished ones! what if ye,
Once passion-tossed as we,
The strugglers oversee
Whom ye here met?

What if two keen to scan,
Nigh when life's dawn began,
Still linger near --
Nigh me, ere sunset fade,
Twin stars of evening shade,
Calmly to shine and aid,
Lighten and cheer?





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