On the day that the world shall end my dear I shall stand at the judgment bar Your name on my lips, your face in my heart Your love as my guiding star, And then I shall say to the God above As he looks through my soul for sin Only one great fault You will find, dear Lord, Inscribed on the scroll within. I have tended Your sheep and nurtured Your lambs, I have comforted hearts in despair, I have kept the commandments with never a pause Save the one You see written there, But You are my Judge and I hope You can find Some grace for a flaw so grim For I loved a mortal far more than my life And forfeited heaven for him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WOMAN'S CONSTANCY by JOHN DONNE THE BELLS OF LYNN; HEARD AT NAHANT by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A POEM FOR THE SEFIROT AS WHEEL OF LIGHT by NAFTALI BACHARACH ON READING OF THE DEATH OF THOMAS WOLFE by MARION LOUISE BLISS LINES TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, ON DEATH OF EARL OF GLENCAIRN by ROBERT BURNS THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN - PROLOGUE FOR MISS FONTENELLE by ROBERT BURNS FUTILITY (FOR THE INFORMATION OF PENOLOGISTS AND SOCIOLOGISTS) by DANTE CACICI |