Comfort

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Maybe this poem will soothe in this month of remembrance of all the dead.
Comfort

By May Doney
 
Ah! if we only dreamed how close they stand
Who were our flesh and blood once, and are still
A part of us in sympathy and will,
We should not grieve so, thinking death had banned
All sweet communion with life’s spirit-land,
But fancy in each faint delicious thrill
That stirs us when Heaven’s cisterns overfill,
Droppings of comfort some near love had planned.
Death brings them nearer to us: human sense,
Earth-dulled, is all the barrier that hides
The adjacent country where each one abides;
And we shall wonder, when we too pass hence,
Our hearts were thwarted by so frail a fence,
And could not break the weak wall that d
ivides.
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1 comment:

Jan said...

This is beautifully comforting. I collect such poems and appreciate this addition to my collection. Thank you.