Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="EVERMORE" id="EVERMORE"></SPAN>Evermore</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">Then I go on from here I’ll take<br/></span> <span class="i0">The ever pleasant memory of a lake.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I’ll tightly lock within my spirit breast<br/></span> <span class="i0">The picture of a grim old mountain’s crest.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">A little stream’s song running ever clear<br/></span> <span class="i0">And all the lonely places I hold dear.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A mocking bird, a drenched and dripping tree.<br/></span> <span class="i0">O! I shall keep my hunger for the sea.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I shall keep my knowledge of the paths I know<br/></span> <span class="i0">The gates of many mornings and the glow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of sunset, on a firegold window pane,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The mist on young nasturtiums after rain.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Virginia creeper on some quaint old garden wall<br/></span> <span class="i0">The sound of dropping nuts, I’ll take them all.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The falling leaves, the closing of the year,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I’ll not forget, tho’ I go on from here.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">These tho’ts I shall retain (e’en past the gates of death),<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of burnished autumn leaves, a tiny baby’s breath.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_21" id="page_21">{21}</SPAN></span><br/></span> <span class="i0">In my heart I’ll take the Heaven’s most untried height<br/></span> <span class="i0">A moon drowned flower, from some star riven night.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I shall remember thru great ages of GOD’S time<br/></span> <span class="i0">The wind in clover, rain in summer time.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Think you I could forget, thru death’s wild fret and pain<br/></span> <span class="i0">The look of slim young birches in the rain?<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_22" id="page_22">{22}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />