In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems

<SPAN name="eternity"></SPAN> <h3> Eternity<br/> </h3> <p class="poem"> Eternity thou dark unbounded sea,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Upon whose tide we drift into the night,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">One moment let us with our mortal sight</SPAN><br/> Pierce through the fogs and know thy mystery.<br/> Voiceless thou art and voiceless wilt thou be,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Across thy still, cold deeps there comes no light,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">While age and æon or a moment's flight</SPAN><br/> Pass on as one and vanish lost in thee.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> Yet onward driven must our frail barques go,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Though through the night no beacon gleams afar,</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">And storm-clouds hide the steadfast guiding-star;</SPAN><br/> The purpose of our wandering and our woe,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">A tide that wafts to some safe harbour bar,</SPAN><br/> O God, that we might know, might only know!<br/></p> <br/><br/><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />