Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="SOUL" id="SOUL"></SPAN>Soul</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">B</span>ECAUSE,<br/></span> <span class="ih">There never was a voice on earth<br/></span> <span class="i2">Could soothe its harrowings,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That’s why these souls God gave to us<br/></span> <span class="i2">Are always lonely things.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Because,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Life is so short, and death so sure,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And worlds uncertain things,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And time so fleet and heaven so high<br/></span> <span class="i2">Souls have such restless wings.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Because,<br/></span> <span class="i2">’Twas fashioned in the heavenly realm<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of God’s creative schemes,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That’s why a soul goes hungrily<br/></span> <span class="i2">From dream to shining dream.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_26" id="page_26">{26}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />