With a Volume of Verses. <br /> <br />TO you who dwell withdrawn, above <br />The world's tumultuous strife, <br />And, in an atmosphere of love, <br />Have triumphed over life; <br /> <br />To you whose heart has kept so young <br />Beneath the weight of years, <br />I give these passion flowers of song, <br />Still wet with undried tears. <br /> <br />You too have trod that stony path <br />Which steeply winds afar, <br />And seen, through nights of storm and wrath, <br />The bright and Morning Star; <br /> <br />Where, shining o'er the Alps of time <br />On valleys full of mist, <br />It beckons us to peaks sublime, <br />Oh, brave Idealist.<br /><br />Mathilde Blind<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-friend-36/
