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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMMORTALITY, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poet's Biography
First Line: Where goes the starry quire?
Last Line: The day that hath no night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand
Subject(s): Immortality; Time
First Line: Where goes the starry quire?
Last Line: The day that hath no night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand
Subject(s): Immortality; Time
WHERE goes the starry quire?
Whereto our hearts aspire
To hail the eternal light.
Our soul to theirs uplift
That golden-wingéd drift
Athwart the solemn night.
Shade on that span immense
But wardens light intense
From gates that Death throws wide.
Shade is but the dark way
That leads from yesterday
To morrows glorified.
Pursue the sacred stars
That mount beyond the bars
Of day in linkéd light.
As they to Death we steer,
As they we wane when near
The day that hath no night.
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