Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). An American Anthology, 17871900. 1900. |
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770. Recognition |
| By John White Chadwick |
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WHEN souls that have put off their mortal gear | |
Stand in the pure, sweet light of heavens day, | |
And wondering deeply what to do or say, | |
And trembling more with rapture than with fear, | |
Desire some token of their friends most dear, | 5 |
Who there some time have made their happy stay, | |
And much have longed for them to come that way, | |
What shall it be, this sign of hope and cheer? | |
Shall it be tone of voice or glance of eye? | |
Shall it be touch of hand or gleam of hair | 10 |
Blown back from spirit-brows by heavens air, | |
Things which of old we knew our dearest by? | |
Oh, naught of this; but, if our love is true, | |
Some secret sense shall cry, T is you andyou! | |
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