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? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE by JAMES GALVIN AFTER WRITING A POEM by DAVID IGNATOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR: OR EATING GRASS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALFRED MOIR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC by MARIANNE MOORE |