Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIGHT AND LOVE, by ANONYMOUS


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LIGHT AND LOVE, by                    
First Line: If light should strike through every darkened place
Last Line: If perfect love might reign but one short day!
Subject(s): Light;love


IF light should strike through every darkened place,
How many a deed of darkness and of shame
Would cease, arrested by its gentle grace,
And striving virtue rise, unscathed by blame!
The prisoner in his cell new hopes would frame,
The miner catch the metal's lurking trace,
The sage would grasp the ills that harm our race,
And unknown heroes leap to sudden fame.
If love but one short hour had perfect sway,
How many a rankling sore its touch would heal,
How many a misconception pass away,
And hearts long hardened learn at last to feel:
What sympathies would wake, what feuds decay
If perfect love might reign but one short day!





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