Page:Demeter and other poems (IA demeterotherpoem00tennrich).pdf/36

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
22
DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE
 Once more the reaper in the gleam of dawnWill see me by the landmark far away,Blessing his field, or seated in the duskOf even, by the lonely threshing-floor,Rejoicing in the harvest and the grange. Yet I, Earth-Goddess, am but ill-contentWith them, who still are highest. Those gray heads,What meant they by their 'Fate beyond the Fates'But younger kindlier Gods to bear us down,As we bore down the Gods before us? Gods,To quench, not hurl the thunderbolt, to stay,Not spread the plague, the famine; Gods indeed,To send the noon into the night and breakThe sunless halls of Hades into Heaven?Till thy dark lord accept and love the Sun,And all the Shadow die into the Light,
This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.