Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL


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First Line: Is every day the judgment day?
Last Line: The hand that plies eternity!
Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


Is every day the judgment day?
A thousand mortals lift on high
A throng of hands that plead and pray;
Beneath a space of quiet sky,
Their several gestures testify.

Oh, mark the wistful hand that holds
A sorrow in its upturned palm;
The gentle hand that firmly folds
Across the breast to make it calm!
Oh, mark the hand by which the balm

Of youth was scattered, eloquent
As the grey leaf upon the tree
When summer's mellow joy is spent!
Above that throng of hands, oh, see
The Hand that plies eternity!





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