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Must it last for ever, The passionate endeavour, Ah, have ye, there in heaven, hearts to throb and still aspire? In the life you know now, Rendered white as snow now, Do fresher glory-heights arise, and beckon higher—higher? Are you dreaming, dreaming, Is your soul still roaming, Still gazing upward as we gazed, of old in the autumn gloaming? But ah, that pale moon roaming Thro’ fleecy mists of gloaming, Furrowing with pearly edge the jewel-powder’d sky, And ah, the days departed With your friendship gentle-hearted, And ah, the dream we dreamt that night, together you and I! Is it fashioned wisely, To help us or to blind us, That at each height we gain we turn, and behold a heaven behind us?
Must it last for ever, The passionate endeavour, Ah, have ye, there in heaven, hearts to throb and still aspire? In the life you know now, Rendered white as snow now, Do fresher glory-heights arise, and beckon higher—higher? Are you dreaming, dreaming, Is your soul still roaming, Still gazing upward as we gazed, of old in the autumn gloaming? But ah, that pale moon roaming Thro’ fleecy mists of gloaming, Furrowing with pearly edge the jewel-powder’d sky, And ah, the days departed With your friendship gentle-hearted, And ah, the dream we dreamt that night, together you and I! Is it fashioned wisely, To help us or to blind us, That at each height we gain we turn, and behold a heaven behind us?
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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Page 84 · printed citation: R. Buchanan (To David in Heaven). · compiler notes excluded
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