The Majority

How fare they all, they of the pnllld face, Beyond ouruower to beckon tlielr return,? lluw U lt wltli tliem In tbe shudow plaoes t 1 luw shall we learn Thelr olemn secret? How eiiu we discover By mi earnest seeklDg, tbe true way Unto the kuowlng lu what realm they hover In whtlilKh day, Or In whut sombre shudow of the nlght Tlu;y are forevor hldden frum our slglu ? We quoHtlon viilnly. Yet lt soraehow pleases, wou they have poken the last sad good-uy lt soiuehow half the pain of partlug aunes That In the sky, In the viiHt nolliude of Htais and spaces, There may heconsclousneasandlireand hope, And that when we must yleld to death's embrace, There may be scope For the unfoldlug of the better powers, So sadly stltled In thla life of ours.