Wednesday, August 31, 2011

As Shadows Pass

Mutely I stand within death's mystic spell--
Star-windows of the Heavenly Home alight--
Watching the silent shadows--in regret--
On cool-dewed grasses, and I gently smile:

His wounds restored, my first-born rests in peace
To hear an angel-bugle; rise; enwrap
His soul with dawn in sky fields ... Lest he keep
A tryst with earth, I smile as shadows pass.