"Who would not go" With buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal, Which opens to the land we long to know? Where shall be satisfied the soul's immortal, Where we shall drop the wearying and the woe In resting so? "Ah, who would fear?" Since, sometimes through the distant pearly portal, Unclosing, to some happy soul a-near, We catch a gleam of glorious light immortal, And strains of heavenly music faintly hear, Breathing good cheer! "Who would endure" To walk in doubt and darkness with misgiving, When he whose tender promises are sure -- The Crucified, the Lord, the Ever-living -- Keeps us those "mansions" evermore secure By waters pure? Oh, wondrous land! Fairer than all our spirits fairest dreaming: "Eye hath not seen," no heart can understand The things prepared, the cloudless radiance streaming How lovingly we wait our Lord's command -- His opening hand! O dear ones there! Whose voices, hushed, have left our pathway lonely, We come erelong, your blessed home to share; We take the guiding hand, we trust it only -- Seeing, by faith, beyond this clouded air, That land so fair! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET IN EQUAL SACRIFICE by ROBERT FROST POETS ARE BORN NOT MADE by ROBERT FROST A BIRTHDAY SONG by SIDNEY LANIER TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS MANOKWARI, IRIAN JAYA; IN MEMORIAM, ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE by KAREN SWENSON |