An Anthology of Australian Verse/Something
Francis
William
Lauderdale
Adams
SOMETHING
It is something in this darker dream demented
to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain
it is something to have sinned, and have repented:
it is something to have failed, and tried again!
to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain
it is something to have sinned, and have repented:
it is something to have failed, and tried again!
It is something to have loved the brightest Beauty
with no hope of aught but silence for your vow:
it is something to have tried to do your duty:
it is something to be trying, trying now!
with no hope of aught but silence for your vow:
it is something to have tried to do your duty:
it is something to be trying, trying now!
And, in the silent solemn hours,
when your soul floats down the far faint flood of time—
to think of Earth’s lovers who are ours,
of her saviours saving, suffering, sublime:
when your soul floats down the far faint flood of time—
to think of Earth’s lovers who are ours,
of her saviours saving, suffering, sublime:
And that you with these may be her lover,
with these may save and suffer for her sake:
It is joy to have lived, so to discover
You’ve a life you can give and she can take!
with these may save and suffer for her sake:
It is joy to have lived, so to discover
You’ve a life you can give and she can take!