The Aftermath
James
Hendry
Hendry, James
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
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The glamour of the after-light
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The Aftermath
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The glamour of the after-light
Lay clear and fair along the sky,
And made the pathway eerie-bright
As home we wandered—thou and I.
The meadow-mists were lying low ;
A shadow held the riverside ;
The water took the western glow,
And peace, grey peace, spread far and wide.
A sober-heartedness was ours—
So still the earth, the sky so strange ;
And we had given in sunny hours
Our youthful hearts their widest range.
We lingered in the meadow-path
Touched by the twilight’s silent spell,
While from the sun’s fleet aftermath
A subtle glory rose and fell.
Dim, wistful thoughts within us grew,
Forebodings of the life to be,
Till with a sudden thrill we knew
Time’s touch of immortality.
For all the wonder and the awe,
Far-widening within the west,
Seemed with a mystic power to draw
Our hearts into its kindly rest.
Yet still it faded, faded fast,
And night crept up the eastern slope ;
But o’er our lives a strength had passed,
And left us with a larger hope.
So home we wandered—thou and I—
That night, sweet wife, so long ago,
And still we watch the western sky
And strengthen in its mystic glow.
James Hendry
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