Poems (Hale)/"Thy memory we will keep,"
"THY MEMORY WE WILL KEEP."
Yes! we will keep thy memory bright, A sweet and stainless gift,—A spell from sorrow's clouds of night, Our yearning hearts to lift.
Thine was a name o'er which to shed Our sweetest meed of love.Too early wast thou called to tread Thy radiant path above?
Too early? No. The wish were vain By earthly anguish given,To call thy spirit back again, From God, and bliss, and heaven.
For thou hast plumed thy golden wing, And sped thy glorious flight,To stoop thee only at the spring Of endless life and light.