Poem by Leigh Gordon Giltner

Love and Death

Ever athwart Life's sunlit, upland ways
Falleth the shadow of impending Death,
And still Life's flowers beneath his blighting breath
To ashes wither, and to dust, her bays.
What were the worth of hard-won power or praise?
Awaits us all the grave-cell dark and deep,
The greedy grave-worm's maw, the awful sleep
When Death his cold hand on our pulses lays.
What then the end of action or of strife?
The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe,
Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove?
Life's Passion Play all blindly men rehearse....
But yet our recompense for birth, for life,
For death itself, meseems, is deathless Love!

1. A Challenge
2. To Bliss Carman
3. To One Who Sleeps
4. And Yet...
5. Ashes of Roses

Samuel Lover Love and Death ("Cupid, one day, was surprised in a shower of rain")

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