Mine and Thine (1904)/At Easter

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←Philistia Mine and Thine (1904) by Florence Earle Coates
At Easter[1]		 Delilah→
This poem was not included in Mrs. Coates' collected Poems (1916, in 2 vols.).


AT EASTER

He saw the myriad blooming plants 
 That mark the hallowed morn;
He thought upon a lowly mound
 In a far land, forlorn,


Where yearning love would never come
 To place or flower or leaf,
Where lonely love would never bring
 Its heartache for relief.


When, lo! athwart his musings, came
 Again that strange appeal
Which he had listened to before,—
 Without the power to feel;


And putting by a vain regret,—
 His fallen foe to save,—
"Ah, love!" he sighed, "lost love!—I lay
 This blossom on thy grave!"

Notes [edit]

  1. ↑ In the 1905 reprint edition of this poem, line 6 reads, "With token fond, though brief" instead of "To place or flower or leaf" as rendered in the 1904 edition.
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