Warning

Portrait of George William Russell
George William Russell 1867–1935
64Collected Poems by A.E.

PURE at heart we wander now: Comrade on the quest divine, Turn not from the stars your brow That your eyes may rest on mine.

Pure at heart we wander now: We have hopes beyond to-day; And our quest does not allow Rest or dreams along the way.

We are, in our distant hope, One with all the great and wise: Comrade, do not turn or grope For some lesser light that dies.

We must rise or we must fall: Love can know no middle way: If the great life do not call, Then is sadness and decay.

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