ONE walks secure in wisdom-trodden ways That lead to peaceful nights through happy days -- Health, fame, friends, children, and a gentle wife, All Youth can covet or Experience praise, And Use withal to crown the ease of life. Ah, thirsting for another day, How dread the fear If he but knew the danger near! Another, with some old inheritance Of Fate, unmitigated yet by Chance, -- Condemned by those he loves, with no appeal To his own fearful heart, that ever pants For newer circlings of the cruel Wheel! Ah, thirsting for another day, What need of fear If he but knew the help that's near? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEME IN YELLOW by CARL SANDBURG STROLLER by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS SONG OF MARION'S MEN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT BOSTON COMMON: 1774 by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG by ALEXANDER POPE LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |