 | The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod |  |
SONNET
HOW MANY YEARN TO TEAR ASIDE THE VEIL
How many yearn to tear aside the veilThat kindly overshades Futurity,
The hidden sea on which our barks must sail
With breezes fair or foul as it may be,
To gain or lose the port, who can foresee?—
A fool's desire, there may be much to dread
Beyond that veil, and wouldst thou have it known
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Blue skies above me, but a mist ahead,
I care not wish not that it should be rent,
The moveless calm at present 'round me spread
A courage to my timid heart has lent,
And I will onward steer with fearless soul
Though storms divide me from the long'd for goal.
| The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod | |