Perpetual Light : a memorial

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Ah, do not turn to me that face which is no longer of this world!… There are enough angels to serve the mass in Heaven! Have pity on me, who am only a man without wings, who rejoiced in this companion God had given me, and that I should hear her sigh with her head resting on my shoulder!… the bitterness like the bitterness of myrrh… And for you age is already come. But how hard it is to renounce when the heart is young!
A Memorial.
..that we may be able to arrive with pure minds at the festival of perpetual light. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. — Oremus.
Think of no verse when you read this, But think of her alone And her enduring benefice, Sunlight on stone.
For day is stone and night is stone Save she has made them bright, Now she knows all that may be known Of day and night.
Courage like hers we have from her, Strength to be straight and brave, And noble memories that recur And heal and save.
By her clear eyes, by her pure brows, We take the Sign, And kneel within her Father's house— And yours and mine.
The first eleven poems in the section entitled, Before originally appeared in my first volume, Merchants from Cathay published by the Century Company. This volume is now out of print and I hold the copyright. The three poems following these originally appeared in my second volume, The Falconer of God and Other Poems. For permission to reprint a few of the remaining poems I have to thank the editors of Reedy's Mirror, The Bang, The Lyric, The Madrigal , The Sun Dial (New York Evening Sun), Everybody's Magazine, The Century Magazine , and Books and the Book World (New York Sunday Sun). For the group, The Long Absence in the section entitled, After, I owe thanks to The Yale Review .
BEFORE The Snare of the Fowler Thwarted Utterance The Song of Her Always I Know You Anew The Rival Celestial The Tamer of Steeds Love in Armor Wardrobe of Remembrance The Second Covenant Dedication to a First Book The Shadowed Road Love in the Dawn Had I a Claim to Fame? The One Dream and Deed A Taper of Incense To Purity Atonement The Adoration Talisman Recognition The Silver Hind Aristeas Relates His Youth Man Possessed Miniature Death Will Make Clear Sunlight And a Long Way Off He Saw Fairyland In Time of Trouble Anomaly The Lover Judgment Unforgotten The Pale Dancer Premonition