Messengers

Messengers written by Walter de la Mare

Poems (1906)

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A few all-faithful words, a glance from eyes
That in their deeps hide hosts they cannot see —
Phantoms of loveliest simplicity;
A transient touch — some bird's that twittering flies
Into the primrose of the deepening skies;
A child's pure cheek pressed cold and tranquilly
Upon a brow ashamed, in misery;
A voice that sings easefuUy echo-wise:
Whence are they in a world so alien?
Are they the waterdrops of that vast flood
Death shall unloose? Shall all they hint, again
In fulness be retold? Shall this wild blood
That rocks to them, lull down to stillness when
These light-wing messengers flit back to God?

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