Poems (Storrie)/The Universal Query
The Universal Query.
Shall I awake some unexpected day, and feel my soul Shake off this drowsiness of living And watch a new horizon backward roll New boundaries to a new creation giving, And see night's fearful fancies fade away, Drowned in the sunlight of a real day?
Shall I awake unto a sudden sense of exquisite release From terrors half obscure, or wholly seeming, And realise by that benign surcease How drearily I have been dreaming? And watch the freshness of a true daybreak And draw deep breaths, and know I am awake?