Love's Legacy

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Title:     Love's Legacy
Author: Helen Hay Whitney [More Titles by Whitney]

As one who looks too long upon the sun
When he must turn to earth from flame-shot skies
Sees all else dark through his bereaved eyes,
And yet may watch the rainbow ribbons run
Athwart the gravity of gray and dun,
He holds the darkness dearer for the prize
Wherein his only pledge of radiance lies
When he the vast magnificence must shun.

So we who play with rainbows, having seen
The sun's own face. We may not hold the west,
Which burns against the bosom of the night,
But in the after-glow, with eyes serene,
We still may find, dear heart, the sun's bequest,
An echoed glory of our passionate light.

[The end]
Helen Hay Whitney's poem: Love's Legacy

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