SO, BACK again? -- And is your errand done, Unfailing one? How quick the gray world, at your morning look, Turns wonder book! Come in -- O guard and guest; Come, O you breathless, from a lifelong quest! Search my heart; and if a comfort be, Ah, comfort me. You eloquent one, you best Of all diviners, so to trace The weather gleams upon a face; With wordless, querying paw, Adventuring the law! You shaggy Loveliness, What call was it? -- What dream beyond a guess, Lured you, gray ages back, From that lone bivouac Of the wild pack? -- Was it your need or ours? The calling trail Of Faith that should not fail? Of hope dim understood? -- That you should follow our poor humanhood, Only because you would! To search and circle -- follow and outstrip, Men and their fellowship; And keep your heart no less, Your to-and-fro of hope and wistfulness, Through all world-weathers and against all odds! Can you forgive us, now? -- Your fallen gods? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OBERON'S FEAST by ROBERT HERRICK THE CARD-DEALER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI HOW CYRUS LAID THE CABLE [JULY 29, 1866] by JOHN GODFREY SAXE ENVOY: 5. TO MY NAME-CHILD by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |