| Journey (1919) by |
| from Poetry, October 1919 |
Journey[]
Torchlight procession, Lourdes, France. Courtesy 501 Places.
Life is more sweet than I
Knew: the shifted scene
Less wavered, more trimmed with light,
Than the years before.
Look down. People pass over the ice
As a file of thin ghosts creep,
And fade beyond a hill.
You, and you, and you —
Small souls, shrinking away.
And you, and you, and you,
Bearing lights in your hands,
Approaching eternally . . . . Life is
More sweet than I knew.
This poem is in the public domain