Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
...
'Four years,' some say consolingly. 'Oh well,
What's that ? You're young. And then it must have been
A very fine experience for you !'
...
Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart,
Received when in that grand and tragic 'show'
You played your part,
Two years ago,
...
When you have lost your all in a world's upheaval,
Suffered and prayed, and found your prayers were vain,
When love is dead, and hope has no renewal -
These need you still; come back to them again.
...
Ghosts crying down the vistas of the years,
Recalling words
Whose echoes long have died,
And kind moss grown
...
God said, "Men have forgotten Me:
The souls that sleep shall wake again,
And blinded eyes must learn to see."
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I found in you a holy place apart,
Sublime endurance, God in man revealed,
...