Poem by Louisa Sarah Bevington

Peace on Earth

Peace on our earth! Men reconciled
    To Law that bids them be;
O holy freedom! final faith!
    O sacred certainty!
I sometimes think the road to it
    Lies through Gethsemane.

And yet the young are with us too,
    Bold from the very first;
Dear lads and maidens full of will
    The golden cage to burst;
Alert to note the living springs
    That slake the whole world's thirst.

The very goal we touch at last,
    The haven of the free;
Ah, comrades! you who understand,
    Sing in your heart with me
"Thou Death, where now thy poisoned sting?
    Where, Grave thy victory?"

1. Unperfected
2. The Most Beautiful Thing
3. Stanza
4. Valuation
5. Love’s Depth

Print

1528 Views

Last Poems

To Russian version