DLTK's Poems
Truth at Last
Does a man ever give up hope, I wonder, --
Face
the grim fact, seeing it clear as day?
When Bennen saw the snow
slip, heard its thunder
Low, louder, roaring round him, felt the
speed
Grow swifter as the avalanche hurled downward,
Did he for
just one heart-throb -- did he indeed
Know with all certainty, as
they swept onward,
There was the end, where the crag dropped away?
Or did he think, even till they plunged and fell,
Some miracle
would stop them? Nay, they tell
That he turned round, face forward,
calm and pale,
Stretching his arms out toward his native vale
As
if in mute, unspeakable farewell,
And so went down. -- 'T is
something, if at last,
Though only for a flash, a man may see
Clear-eyed the future as he sees the past,
From doubt, or fear, or
hope's illusion free.
