Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS


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IMPERFECTION, by                    
First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts
Last Line: Bliss waits you yet!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


EARTH vaunts no joy that lasts,
No charm all fair;
Light that no shadow casts
What eye could bear?
Sweet grace and sad decay,
Cloud pierced by golden ray,
Light and Shades' tender play
Blend in each day.

Gladness is sunshine soft,
Whose genial beam
Bids a wild desert oft
With blossoms teem:
Yet colour, form, perfume
Flourish thro' mists that loom;
Beauty's coronals bloom
Mid transient gloom.

Goodness is Light Divine,
Evil its shade;
This destined more to shine,
That more to fade:
Fleeting the chequered scene,
Final a Clime serene,
Light tempered by no screen
For eyes full keen.

Hence! what retards that rule;
Hither! what speeds.
Mortals! shun no dark school
That glory breeds.
Eyes with sad dewdrops wet,
Minds scorning to forget,
Hearts pining with regret,
Bliss waits you yet!





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