Posthumous Poems/"High Thought and Hallowed Love, by Faith Made One"
SONNET
High thought and hallowed love, by faith made one,
Begat and bare the sweet strong-hearted child,
Art, nursed of nature: earth and sea and sun
Saw nature then more godlike as she smiled.
Life smiled on death, and death on life: the soul
Between them shone, and soared above their strife,
And left on time's unclosed and starry scroll
A sign that-quickened death to deathless life.
Begat and bare the sweet strong-hearted child,
Art, nursed of nature: earth and sea and sun
Saw nature then more godlike as she smiled.
Life smiled on death, and death on life: the soul
Between them shone, and soared above their strife,
And left on time's unclosed and starry scroll
A sign that-quickened death to deathless life.
Peace rose like Hope, a patient queen, and bade
Hell's first-born Faith abjure her creed and die,
And Love, by life and death made sad and glad,
Gave Conscience ease, and watched Good Will pass by.
All these make music now of one man's name
Whose life and age are one with love and fame.
Hell's first-born Faith abjure her creed and die,
And Love, by life and death made sad and glad,
Gave Conscience ease, and watched Good Will pass by.
All these make music now of one man's name
Whose life and age are one with love and fame.