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Horizons and Landmarks: Poems of the Unknown Way

9781465682376
213 pages
Library of Alexandria
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The child is part of all that he beholds; Youth with his dreams of love the world enfolds; Man takes life in his hands, and mars or moulds. Freed of its load, washed of its gathered stain, In the child’s spirit life is born again. Of all he sees and loves he is a part: Faith lights his footsteps; filtered through his heart The everlasting fountain-springs o’er-run In rills of joy, and life and he are one. Youth is life’s lover, eager to embrace And reach the soul that lights so fair a face; But, as the lover on the maid confers From his own dreams a beauty more than hers, So youth illumines with the radiant hues Of heart’s desire the vision he pursues. Man is life’s guardian;—unknown issues wait On his intent: his sight directs blind fate. ’Tis his before the Belly-god to kneel, Or sow the harvests of life’s commonweal,—To quit his post, or guard through pain and death The hope with which creation travaileth. The child gives love, and makes the world his own; Youth looks for harvests which he has not sown; Man shares God’s burden on the road unknown.

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