1914, and Other Poems

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle">SONNET (<i>Suggested by some of the Proceedings</i><br/></span> <span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span style="font-size: 110%;"><i>of the Society for Psychical Research</i>)</span></span></div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun,<br/></span> <span class="i1">We'll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread<br/></span> <span class="i1">Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead<br/></span> <span class="i0">Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run<br/></span> <span class="i0">Down some close-covered by-way of the air,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Some low sweet alley between wind and wind,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Stoop under faint gleams, thread the shadows, find<br/></span> <span class="i0">Some whispering ghost-forgotten nook, and there<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Spend in pure converse our eternal day;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Think each in each, immediately wise;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say<br/></span> <span class="i1">What this tumultuous body now denies;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;<br/></span> <span class="i1">And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr class="large" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />