DREAM not, O Soul, that easy is the task Thus set before thee. If it proves at length, As well it may, beyond thy natural strength, Faint not, despair not. As a child may ask A father, pray the Everlasting Good For light and guidance midst the subtle snares Of sin thick planted in life's thoroughfares, For spiritual strength and moral hardihood; Still listening, through the noise of time and sense, To the still whisper of the Inward Word; Bitter in blame, sweet in approval, heard, Itself its own confirming evidence: To health of soul a voice to cheer and please, To guilt the wrath of the Eumenides. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEAWEED by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW GRAND IS THE SEEN by WALT WHITMAN MAUD MULLER by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 4: LORD STANHOPE'S STEAMER by T. BAKER COMOS by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER |