In faith assured we waited as in patience thou didst wait,
Knowing full well the answer must sooner come or late.
And come it has, sufficingly, the discord disappears
Until today again is heard the music of the spheres
Proclaiming thee the well-beloved, peer of the proudest peers.
--_Henry L. Bonsall_

He fell asleep when in the century's skies
The paling stars proclaimed another day--
He, genial still, amidst the chill and gray,
With smiling lips and trustful, dauntless eyes;
He, the Columbus of a vast emprise,
Whose realization in the future lay;
He, who stepped from the well-worn, narrow way
To walk with Poetry in larger guise.
And fortunate, despite of transient griefs,
The years announce him in a new born age;
The ship of his fair fame, past crags and reefs,
Sails bravely on, and less and less the rage
Of gainsaying winds becomes; while to his phrase
The world each day gives ampler heed and praise!
--_William Struthers_

Here health we pledge you in one draught of song,
Caught in this rhymster's cup from earth's delight,
Where English fields are green the whole year long--
The wine of might,
That the new-come spring distills, most sweet and strong,
In the viewless air's alembic, that's wrought too fine for sight.
Good health! we pledge, that care may lightly sleep,
And pain of age be gone for this one day,
As of this loving cup you take, and, drinking deep,
Are glad at heart straightway
To feel once more the friendly heat of the sun
Creative in you (as when in youth it shone),
And pulsing brainward with the rhythmic wealth
Of all the summer whose high minstrelsy
Shall soon crown field and tree,
To call back age to youth again, and pain to perfect health.
--_Ernest Rhys_

I loaf and invite my soul
And what do I feel?
An influx of life from the great central power
That generates beauty from seedling to flower.
I loaf and invite my soul
And what do I hear?
Original harmonies piercing the din
Of measureless tragedy, sorrow and sin.
I loaf and invite my soul
And what do I see?
The temple of God in the perfected man.
Revealing the wisdom and end of earth's plan.
--_Elizabeth Port