THE PANGS that guard the gates of joy,
the naked sword that will be kist,
how distant seem-d they to the boy,
white flashes in the rosy mist!
Ah, not where tender play was screen-d
in the light heart of leafy mirth
of that obdurate might we ween-d
that shakes the sure repose of earth.
And sudden, -twixt a sun and sun,
the veil of dreaming is withdrawn:
lo, our disrupt dominion
and mountains solemn in the dawn;
hard paths that chase the dayspring-s white,
and glooms that hold the nether heat:
oh, strange the world upheaved from night,
oh, dread the life before our feet!
The Pangs That Guard The Gates Of Joy
Christopher John Brennan
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Poem topics: heart, joy, life, light, night, world, tender, earth, play, hard, screen, hold, strange, sword, chase, dawn, guard, sun, white, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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