INTO the Silent Land! Ah, who shall lead us thither? Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand. Who leads us with a gentle hand Thither, oh, thither, Into the Silent Land? Into the Silent Land! To you, ye boundless regions Of all perfection! Tender morning-visions Of beauteous souls! The future's pledge and band! Who in life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land! O Land! O Land! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed? Into the Silent Land! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNWANTED MEMORY by CLARENCE MAJOR FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914) by LAURENCE BINYON MEMORIAL DAY by WILLIAM E. BROOKS GOD by GABRIEL ROMANOVITCH DERZHAVIN THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE by JOHN WILMOT DANS LA BOHEME by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |