39 “—AND EVER SHALL BE”
Reading edition
—After Alphonse Moreau.
Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays Each thing save one thing:—mid this strife diurnal Of hourly change begot, Love, that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not;— Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers Find altered by and by, When, with possession, time anon discovers Trapped dreams must die,— For he that visions God, of mankind gathers One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father’s Love for his son.