A Day Redeemed

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Title:     A Day Redeemed
Author: W. M. MacKeracher [More Titles by MacKeracher]

I rose, and idly sauntered to the pane,
And on the March-bleak mountain bent my look;
And standing there a sad review I took
Of what the day had brought me. What the gain
To Wisdom's store? What holds had Knowledge ta'en?
I mused upon the lightly-handled book,
The erring thought, and felt a stern rebuke:
"Alas, alas! the day hath been in vain!"

But as I gazed upon the upper blue,
With many a twining jasper ridge up-ploughed,
Sudden, up-soaring, swung upon my view
A molten, rolling, sunset-laden cloud:
My spirit stood, and caught its glorious hue--
"Not lost the day!" it, leaping, cried aloud.

[The end]
W. M. MacKeracher's poem: Day Redeemed

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