Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WARNING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL


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First Line: Pure at heart we wander now
Last Line: Then is sadness and decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Hope; Life; Optimism


PURE at heart we wander now:
Comrade on the quest divine,
Turn not from the stars your brow
That your eyes may rest on mine.

Pure at heart we wander now:
We have hopes beyond to-day;
And our quest does not allow
Rest or dreams along the way.

We are, in our distant hope,
One with all the great and wise:
Comrade, do not turn or grope
For some lesser light that dies.

We must rise or we must fall:
Love can know no middle way:
If the great life do not call,
Then is sadness and decay.





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