Guerdon

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year
        I saw a tear.
Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow
        So soon a sorrow.
Just then the sunlight fell with sudden flame:
        A tear became
A wondrous diamond sparkling in the light
        A beautiful sight.

Upon my soul there fell such woeful loss,
        I said, ‘The Cross
Is grievous for a life as young as mine.’
        Just then, like wine,
God’s sunlight shone from His high Heavens down;
        And lo! a crown
Gleamed in the place of what I thought a burden
        My sorrow’s guerdon.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XXAABBCC DDEEFFXE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 575
Words 100
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8

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