Wednesday, December 10, 2008

In celebration of Emily Dickinson's birth anniversary...

A poem of persevering and purpose, and within it a message of hope and the reality of an eternal existence.

Each life converges to some centre

Expressed or still;

Exists in every human nature

A goal,



Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,

Too fair

For credibility's temerity

To dare.



Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,

To reach

Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment

To touch,



Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;

How high

Unto the saints' slow diligence

The sky!



Ungained, it may be, by a life's low venture,

But then,

Eternity enables the endeavoring

Again.