Page:Poems, Volume 2, Coates, 1916.djvu/175



UR single lives are circled round

By an embracing sea;

Are joined to all that has been, bound

To all that is to be;

The past and future meet and cross,

And in life's ocean is no loss.

We know there is no loss—and yet—

Dismayed, perplexed,—poor dupes of time—

We see youth stricken ere its prime,

And in our grief forget.

But pitying Nature takes our part:

Slowly she heals the breaking heart,

And Sorrow's self procures us gain;

For in her steps ascending higher,

We come, at last, where waits nor pain

Nor unfulfilled desire,—

Finding the path lit from above

That leads from love—to Love!