| George William (“A. E.”) Russell (1867–1935). Collected Poems by A.E. 1913. |
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| 63. Comfort |
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| DARK head by the fireside brooding, | |
| Where upon your ears | |
| Whirlwinds of the earth intruding | |
| Sound in wrath and tears: | |
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| Tender-hearted, in your lonely | 5 |
| Sorrow I would fain | |
| Comfort you, and say that only | |
| Gods could feel such pain. | |
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| Only spirits know such longing | |
| For the far away; | 10 |
| And the fiery fancies thronging | |
| Rise not out of clay. | |
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| Keep the secret sense celestial | |
| Of the starry birth; | |
| Though about you call the bestial | 15 |
| Voices of the earth. | |
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| If a thousand ages since | |
| Hurled us from the throne: | |
| Then a thousand ages wins | |
| Back again our own. | 20 |
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| Sad one, dry away your tears: | |
| Mount again anew: | |
| In the great ancestral spheres | |
| Waits the throne for you. | |
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