Hope MEN talk and dream with a glowing (Christmas poems for best friends)
Hope
MEN talk and dream with a glowing soul
Of the halcyon days to be ; And they yearn and strive for some glistening goal,
Away on a far-off sea.
The young step in when *iie old have gone, But man keeps eternally hoping on.
‘Twas hope that shone as his natal star,
And lighted his path as a boy, ‘Twas hope was the young man’s avatar,
And the old man’s promise of joy ; For when life’s wearisome tramp was o’er, Hope pointed beyond to a sunlit shore.
No day-dream of folly this we hear The thrum of our own heart-strings ;
The message is plain to the listening ear : God made us for higher things ;
And mankind cannot will not believe
That inner voice was meant to deceive.