All Saints Day 1868

“But they are at peace.”

Never to weary more, nor suffer sorrow,-

Their strife all over, and their work all done:

At peace-and only waiting for the morrow;

Heaven’s rest and rapture even now begun.

So tired once! long fetter’d, sorely burden’d,

Ye struggled hard and well for your release;

Ye fought in faith and love-and ye are guerdon’d,

O happy souls! for now ye are at peace.

No more of pain, no more of bitter weeping!

For us a darkness and an empty place,

Somewhere a little dust-in angels’ keeping-

A blessèd memory of a vanish’d face.

For us the lonely path, the daily toiling,

The din and strife of battle, never still’d;

For us the wounds, the hunger, and the soiling,-

The utter, speechless longing, unfulfill’d.

For us the army camp’d upon the mountains,

Unseen, yet fighting with our Syrian foes,-

The heaven-sent manna and the wayside fountains,

The hope and promise, sweetening our woes.

For them the joyous spirit, freely ranging

Green hills and fields where never mortal trod;

For them the light unfading and unchanging,

The perfect quietness-the peace of God.

For both, a dim, mysterious, distant greeting;

For both, at Jesus’ cross, a drawing near;

At Eucharistic gate a blessed meeting,

When angels and archangels worship here.

For both, God grant, an everlasting union,

When sin shall pass away and tears shall cease;

For both the deep and full and true communion,

For both the happy life that is “at peace.”

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• Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith by Poetry In English
• Nestling by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• Images by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Illusions by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Morning by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• He Said To by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Manure by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry by Poetry In English
• Lines For Winter by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski by Poetry In English

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