Leaves of Life - May 12
Leaves of Life
Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz
MAY TWELFTH
- Robert Fielding died 1712.
- James Sheridan Knowles born 1784.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti born 1828.
- Jules Massenet born 1842.
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
Unto thine ear I hold the dead sea-shell
Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet between;
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Life's form and Love's, but by my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable,
Of ultimate things unuttered the frail screen.
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
Unto thine ear I hold the dead sea-shell
Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet between;
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Life's form and Love's, but by my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable,
Of ultimate things unuttered the frail screen.
We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
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