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Poem by Madison Julius Cawein


For the Old


These are the things I pray Heaven send us still,
To blow the ashes of the years away,
Or keep aglow forever 'neath their gray
The fire that warms when Life's old house grows chill:
First Faith, that gazed into our youth's bright eyes;
Courage, that helped us onward, rain or sun;
Then Hope, who captained all our deeds well done;
And, last, the dream of Love that never dies.



Madison Julius Cawein


Madison Julius Cawein's other poems:
  1. Response
  2. Lalage
  3. At the Ferry
  4. The Three Urgandas
  5. Epiphany


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