Sonnet to Those Who See but Darkly + 

Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair + 

Like phantoms groping enswathed from the light + 

Up from miasmic depths, children of night, + 

Surge to the piping of Hope’s dulcet lay, + 

Souled like the lily, whose splendors declare + 

God’s mazèd paradox⁠—purged of all blight, + 

Out from the quagmire, unsullied and fair. + 

Life holds her arms o’er the festering way, + 

Smiles, as their faith-sandalled rushes prevail, + 

Slowly the sun rides the marge of the day, + 

Wine to the lips sorely anguished and pale; + 

On, ever on, do the serried ranks sway + 

Charging the ultimate, rending the veil. + 