At Long Last

Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained,

The Heart’s Desire fulfilled, Love’s guerdon gained.

Wealth’s use is past, Fame’s crown of laurel mocks

The downward-drooping head and grizzled locks.

The end is reached-the end of toil and strife-

The end of life.

Love flowers and fades like grass, and flowers again;

The spendthrift lovers waste themselves in vain;

Their fiery passions burn out one by one,

And then, alas! when their best days are done,

Spirit and body find their perfect mate-

So late! So late!

Long-sought, long seeking, through the lonely years,

The wanderers meet to weep their useless tears

For time and chance irrevocably flown,

Dear hopes outlived and happy faiths outgrown,

Children unborn, the myriad joys unseen

That might have been.

Not for the spring and morning-time of youth

The perfect flower of slow-unfolding truth,

The perfect love, that dreams of youth foretell,

But youth knows not and youth could never tell;

That light celestial, as of sunset fires

When day expires.

Late comes the gift that crowns the hungry quest,

Like ripe wheat-harvest in a land at rest,

And comes alone, a consecrated cup,

To those proved worthy to sit down and sup.

To them-aye, aye, despite their treasure lost,

‘T’is worth the cost.

‘T’is worth the cost to reach the heights at last,

Ere eyes are dim and daylight overpast.

To see one aim achieved, one dream fulfilled,

Ere striving brain and trusting heart are stilled.

To live one glorious hour-its price of pain

Is never paid in vain.

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• Screw-Guns by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Route Marchin’ by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Romulus and Remus by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Rimmon by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Rimini by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Recessional (A Victorian Ode) by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Recessional by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Public Waste by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Prophets at Home by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Prelude by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Pagett, M.P. by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Outsong in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

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