When you were born, beloved, was your soul New made by God to match your body's flower, And were they both at one same precious hour Sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole? Or had your soul since dim creation burned, A star in some still region of the sky, That leaping earthward, left its place on high And to your little new-born body yearned? No words can tell in what celestial hour God made your soul and gave it mortal birth, Nor in the disarray of all the stars Is any place so sweet that such a flower Might linger there until thro' heaven's bars, It heard God's voice that bade it down to earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD by JOHN DRYDEN THE BLACK PANTHER by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK THE WAITER AND THE ALLIGATOR by G. W. A. PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 1. ALLAH by EDWIN ARNOLD PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 50. AL-BAHITH by EDWIN ARNOLD THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME AFTER THE BALL by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON SAVANNAH by ALETHEA S. BURROUGHS |