Poems (Spofford)/Loss and Gain
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LOSS AND GAIN.
When a soul that shines both strong and sweet
From fearless eyes, and makes the world complete,
Vanishes, like foam upon the shore,
Is the earth more desert than before?
From fearless eyes, and makes the world complete,
Vanishes, like foam upon the shore,
Is the earth more desert than before?
Nay! that soul on death its beauty lays,
Casts a splendor down the sunless ways;
Nay! the sky burns bluer, and the night
Soars to follow it a hallowed height!
Casts a splendor down the sunless ways;
Nay! the sky burns bluer, and the night
Soars to follow it a hallowed height!
vol. 3, p. iii