YES, here is undisguised defeat -- You say, "No further fight to lose." With colors in the dust, 't is meet That tears should flow and looks accuse. I echo every word of ruth Or blame: yet have I lost the right To praise with you the unfaltering Truth, Whose power -- save in me -- has might? Another day, another man: I am not @3now@1 what I have been; Each grain that through the hour-glass ran Rescued the sinner from his sin. The Future is my constant friend; Above all children born to her Alike her rich affections bend -- She, the unchiding comforter. Perhaps on her unsullied scroll (Who knows?) there may be writ at last A fairer record of the soul For this dark blot upon the Past. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SORROW by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THE WORLD AND THE QUIETEST by MATTHEW ARNOLD PEACE AND SHEPHERD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD WEDNESDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE VEIL by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |