Onward Keep + 

Onward keep! Forget the self that cried: + 

“This world’s a forest choked with ice and snow; + 

No spark of fire through it can ever ride, + 

No human flame in it can ever glow.” + 

And keeping onward, now, I find + 

The golden leaves of yesterday + 

All safely hidden from the wind + 

Beneath the snow that melts away, + 

And on the shivering boughs + 

New leaves and tender sprout; + 

They crown the winter’s brows, + 

And laugh away his doubt. + 

And in the brook + 

The echoes of + 

What I forsook⁠— + 

What I did love. + 

And the frost + 

’Neath the breath + 

Of me must + 

Welcome death; + 

And the heat + 

Left behind + 

Guides the feet + 

Of the blind. + 

Onward keep; + 

Laugh and weep; + 

Pain and joy + 

Hide and peep. + 

Rise and fall⁠— + 

Fall and rise; + 

This is all⁠— + 

This is wise. + 