Horizons and landmarks

BY THE SAME AUTHOR POEMS OF THE UNKNOWN WAY

HORIZONS AND LANDMARKS
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POEMS BY SIDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1911

The child is part of all that he beholds; Youth with his dreams of love the world enfolds; Man takes life in his hands, and mars or moulds.
Freed of its load, washed of its gathered stain, In the child’s spirit life is born again. Of all he sees and loves he is a part: Faith lights his footsteps; filtered through his heart The everlasting fountain-springs o’er-run In rills of joy, and life and he are one.
Youth is life’s lover, eager to embrace And reach the soul that lights so fair a face; But, as the lover on the maid confers From his own dreams a beauty more than hers, So youth illumines with the radiant hues Of heart’s desire the vision he pursues.