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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEYOND GRIEF, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN
First Line: Man is amazed with sin and sick with terror
Last Line: Beyond his grief, across the lupine sky.
Subject(s): Men
First Line: Man is amazed with sin and sick with terror
Last Line: Beyond his grief, across the lupine sky.
Subject(s): Men
Man is amazed with sin and sick with terror,
Traveling the earth-roads bleak with wind and stone.
To him each fellow face becomes a mirror
Sealed with the long gray sorrow of his own.
He stands heart-leaden by the flowering way,
His debt defaulted to the God he owes.
He walks with blind eyes and deaf ears by day,
Unstirred by wild-bloom, birds or singing snows.
But let him cup a leaf between his fingers
And listen to the orioles' outcry.
There is a core of love within him deep,
Greater than the depression of its sleep,
That will awake to see that beauty lingers
Beyond his grief, across the lupine sky.
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