| I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. ------------------- THE WORLD I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright. And round beneath if, Time in hours, days, years Driven by the spheres. Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. ---------------------- A lover forsaken, A new love may get, But a neck once broken Can never be set. ---------------------- GOODBYE Goodbye, goodbye! Wipe that tear, baby dear, from your eye. Tho� it�s hard to part, I know, I�ll be tickled to death to go. Don�t cry - don�t sigh! There�s a silver lining in the sky! Bonsoir, old thing! Cherio! Chin-chin! Nahpoo! Toodle-oo! Goodbye!! -------------------- SOLITUDE Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow it�s mirth, But has trouble enough of it�s own. -------------------- That blessed mood In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened. ------------------ And I have felt An presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused. Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts, And rolls through all things. -------------------------- IMITATIONS OF IMMORTALITY The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where�er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. -------------------- THE COMING OF WISDOM Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. ------------------- I took a walk alone lastnight, I looked up at the stars To try to find an answer in my life. I chose a star for me, I chose a star for him, I chose two stars for my kids, And one star for my wife. Something made me smile, Something seemed to ease the pain. Something about the human Earth, And how it�s all connected. I saw a friend of mine, he said You look different somehow, I said Everybody�s got to Leave the darkness sometime. |