Poems By David Barker With Historical Sketch By Hon John E Godfrey
Poems By David Barker With Historical Sketch By Hon John E Godfrey
David Barker
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Since then, the teachings of the brain, Or feelings of the heart, Have held for each a different reign, And kept our paths apart. But now amid death's awful night, With tapers burning dim, I hold my screen to catch the light, And not the shades from him. I5O POEMS BY DAVID BARKER. WPIEN, WHERE, AND HOW SHALL I DIE. When shall I die? It may be, perchance, to-morrow. Ere a larger, newer sorrow Comes around my soul to borrow Half the bliss it saves ; It may be when locks are bleaching, When life's... lengthened shadows teachin- o & That my feet are swiftly reaching J J Near a place for graves. Where shall I die? It may be with tearless stranger, It may be 'mid toil and danger, It may be in hut or manger Far from friends removed ; It may be when friends are near me. Breathing kindly words to cheer me Few, who neither scorn nor fear me. Friends mv heart has proved. % WHEN, WHEUE, AM) HOW SHALL I DIE. I ^ I How shall I die? It may be when doubts assail me, When my trust in God shall fail me, While a horde of phantoms hail me From a land of gloom ; It may be when hope attends me, When a world's Redeemer sends me Living, dying faith, that lends me Peace beyond the tomb.
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