When sound shall cease, there being none to hear, When light shall fade, there being none to see, When time is lost in stark eternity, And very space itself is void and drear, Shall beauty end, oblivion draw near, And all our joy in living cease to be? Shall God refuse or fail to act? Must He And all His works, His pride, then disappear? Or shall the Creator of all things and the sense To enjoy them, then reveal a new creation? For all this ghastly loss make recompense? A realm of light beyond imagination, Delights beyond our best experience, -- Not failure, not defeat, but consummation! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE MOON by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 42. AUGMENTED BY FAVOURABLE BLASTS by PHILIP AYRES HERACLES AND MELEAGER by BACCHYLIDES LA VILLE DU DETROIT by LEVI BISHOP |