Threading a darksome passage all alone,
The taper's flame, by envious current blown,
Crouched low, and eddied round, as in affright,
So challenged by the vast and hostile night,
Then down I held the taper;-swift and fain
Up climbed the lovely flower of light again!
Thou Kindler of the spark of life divine,
Be henceforth the Inverted Torch a sign
That, though the flame beloved thou dost depress,
Thou wilt not speed it into nothingness;
But out of nether gloom wilt reinspire,
And homeward lift the keen empyreal fire!
The Inverted Torch
Edith M. Thomas
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Poem topics: alone, fire, flower, life, light, night, passage, current, speed, divine, swift, hostile, spark, flame, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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