Not Understood and Other Poems/To Find the Key

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Not Understood and Other Poems (1908)
by Thomas Bracken
To Find the Key
4618469Not Understood and Other Poems — To Find the Key1908Thomas Bracken

TO FIND THE KEY.

AN hour of joy, a day of tears,
 A lesson in life’s changeful school,
A dream of happy fleeting years,
  A mad plunge in the whirling pool,
A sail upon the waves which flow
  Unto the hidden mystic sea
Wherein we sink! And then we go
  To try the lock and find the key.

A day of toil, an hour of rest,
  A week of faith, a year of doubt,
A little while on Friendship’s breast,
  Then mingling with the selfish rout,
A flutter on Ambition’s wings,
  An earnest longing to be free
From worldly cares and earthly things,
  And then we go to find the key.

An hour of peace, a day of sin,
  A week of joy, a year of strife,
A knowledge of the “voice within,”
  That tells us of the after life.
An effort through heaven’s gates to pry,
  A pilgrimage of gloom and glee;
We bud, we bloom, we fade, we die,
  And then we go to find the key.