 | 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition |  |
THE VISION BEAUTIFUL.
To be like God and see things as they are,
To be like man and and see things as they seem,
To see an equal light in stone and star,
This is the poet's dower—the prince's dream.
To be like man and and see things as they seem,
To see an equal light in stone and star,
This is the poet's dower—the prince's dream.
He sees a hidden beauty in the scar,
That is to scorners but an ugly seam;
He knows the truth though trouble be its gleam,
And understands its message from afar.
That is to scorners but an ugly seam;
He knows the truth though trouble be its gleam,
And understands its message from afar.
O nought is base or common in his eyes,
And all the world is sown with secret grace,
Reflected sweetly from its Father's face;
And all the world is sown with secret grace,
Reflected sweetly from its Father's face;
And on the thunderous skirts of brazen skies,
He sees a fairer heaven and earth arise,
And gathers manna in the desert space.
He sees a fairer heaven and earth arise,
And gathers manna in the desert space.
| 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition | |