A broken mirror in a trembling hand; <br />Sad, trembling lips that utter broken thought: <br />One of a wide and wandering, aimless band; <br />One in the world who for the world hath naught. <br /> <br />A heart that loves beyond the shallow word; <br />A heart well loved beyond its flowerless worth: <br />One who asks God to answer the prayer heard; <br />One from the dust returning to the earth. <br /> <br />Can miracle ne'er make the mirror whole <br />For one who, seeing, could be nobly bold? <br />Who could well die, to magnify the soul,- <br />Whose strength of love will shake the graveyard's mould?<br /><br />Rose Hawthorne Lathrop<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-unperfected/
