| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXXIV. Compensation
From ‘In Memory of James T. Fields’ | | By John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | | AS a guest who may not stay | |
| Long and sad farewells to say | |
| Glides with smiling face away, | |
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| Of the sweetness and the zest | |
| Of thy happy life possessed | 5 |
| Thou hast left us at thy best…. | |
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| Keep for us, O friend, where’er | |
| Thou art waiting, all that here | |
| Made thy earthly presence dear; | |
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| Something of thy pleasant past | 10 |
| On a ground of wonder cast, | |
| In the stiller waters glassed! | |
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| Keep the human heart of thee; | |
| Let the mortal only be | |
| Clothed in immortality. | 15 |
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| And when fall our feet as fell | |
| Thine upon the asphodel, | |
| Let thy old smile greet us well; | |
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| Proving in a world of bliss | |
| What we fondly dream in this,— | 20 |
| Love is one with holiness! | | | | |
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