I Shall Remember

TWO POEMS

I SHALL REMEMBER

Open to me the door of heaven

For an hour, an hour!

Let me pace the floor of heaven,

Let me pluck one flower!

Forever and forever heaven

Will live upon my lips.

I shall remember. Never heaven

Shall fail my seeking ships.

I shall be shod and swathed with heaven-

Ah, the blue filmy veil-

Because for an hour I bathed in heaven

Whose winds hurt and heal.

I shall remember. Songs of heaven,

I shall sing them still;

Like the silver throngs of heaven

I shall have heaven's will.

So open to me the door of heaven

For an hour, an hour!

Let me breathe the air of heaven,

Let me pluck one flower!