Poems (Angier)/Glimpses
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GLIMPSES.Vive memor Lethi.
We walk no new, untravelled way,
Through dust and darkness unto day.
Through dust and darkness unto day.
Fears haunt us here, and doubts assail,
There's rest within the shadowy vale.
There's rest within the shadowy vale.
Fair forms from out the silent Past,
Pause, bend, and beckon, gliding fast.
Pause, bend, and beckon, gliding fast.
Low voices stealing on the ear,
Breathe gentle words of peace and cheer.
Breathe gentle words of peace and cheer.
Hope, radiant-browed, sings, robed in white,
Of no more pain, and no more night.
Of no more pain, and no more night.
Faith smiling stoops, with outstretched hand,
To lead us to the Unseen Land.
To lead us to the Unseen Land.
Time's touch, that withers all things here,
Mars naught in that celestial sphere.
Mars naught in that celestial sphere.
No changing seasons dim the light
Of stars that peep through ether bright.
Of stars that peep through ether bright.
Fair as they shone on Eden bowers
They glint above these homes of ours.
They glint above these homes of ours.
Smiling through tears, we gaze on them,
And think of star-crowned Bethlehem.
And think of star-crowned Bethlehem.
Dim must the eye be, deaf the ear,
Which cannot see, that will not hear;
Which cannot see, that will not hear;
When each frail flower some moral teaches,
Each Autumn leaf a sermon preaches.
Each Autumn leaf a sermon preaches.
From withered grass, from garnered grain,
From gathered fruit, comes this refrain—
From gathered fruit, comes this refrain—
Our Heaven-appointed earth-work done,
We pass from sight, as sets the sun.
We pass from sight, as sets the sun.
Change is Progression, all things show,
And death is birth, as all shall know.
And death is birth, as all shall know.