Rosemary and Pansies

<h2><SPAN name="THE_UNRETURNING" id="THE_UNRETURNING"></SPAN>THE UNRETURNING</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If our dead could come back to us,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Who so desire it,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And be as they were before,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Would we require it?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Would we bid them share again<br/></span> <span class="i2">Our weakness, foregoing<br/></span> <span class="i0">All their higher blessedness<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of being and knowing?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For them the triumph is won,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The fight completed;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Do we wish that the doubtful strife<br/></span> <span class="i2">Should be repeated?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Would we call them from the calm<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of all assurance<br/></span> <span class="i0">To the perils that might prove<br/></span> <span class="i2">Past their endurance?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">God is kind, since He will not heed<br/></span> <span class="i2">Our bitter yearning,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And the gates of heaven are shut<br/></span> <span class="i2">’Gainst all returning.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_46" id="page_46">{46}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />