The Day Of Remembrance

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Title:     The Day Of Remembrance
Author: Alfred Noyes [More Titles by Noyes]

Dazzle of the sea, azure of the sky, glitter of the dew on the grass,
Pass to Oblivion
In the darkness
With all that ever is or ever was.

Yet, O flocks of cloud with your violet shadows, O white may crowding
o'er the lane,
The Shepherd that drives you
To the darkness
Shall lead you thro' the crimson dawn again.

Bear your load of beauty to the sunset, and the golden gates of death.
The Eternal shall remember
In the darkness
And recall you at a word, at a breath.

Even as the mind of a man may remember his lost and linkless hours,
This world that is scattered
To the darkness
Dismembered and dis-petalled, clouds and flowers,

Cities, suns, and systems, as He said of old, they sleep! Not a bird,
not a leaf shall pass by,
But on the day of remembrance
In the darkness,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,

They shall flash to their places in the music of the whole, even as our
fathers said!
For a Power shall remember
In the darkness,
And the universal sea give up her dead.

[The end]
Alfred Noyes's poem: Day Of Remembrance

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