Poems (Taylor)/A Prayer to Death

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A PRAYER TO DEATH
For one who suffered too long
O God's archangel, tarriest thou so late? Now would we hear the dreamy winnowing, Now see the dreamy silver of thy wing.Hark while we pray, life's bondsmen passionate.—Yon soul with tears and travail satiate, Softly redeem from long long suffering. Fierce as this intercession that we bringHis bitter need; and, as thy beauty, great.
O thou who gatherest to thy yearning breast Young spirits newly wedded with delight,  Lest their bright bridal-blossom spoil and fail,—  Must pity one so prostrate and so pale With utter pain,—must snatch him to his right,—Exquisite silences, forgotten rest.
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