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From a London garden

Chapter 31: LIGHT
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A collected series of lyrical poems moves between urban and rural imagery to reflect on love, mortality, time, memory, and moral growth. The poet uses concise, imagistic language and varied meters to meditate on human experience: longing and loss, pride and humility, the rhythms of city life and quiet country scenes, the passage of days and seasons, death and consolation. Voices range from personal confession to philosophical observation, with elegiac tones, religious reflection, and celebration of steadfastness. Recurring motifs—light and shadow, dawn and evening, gardens and streets—bind individual pieces into a contemplative portrait of inner life amid modern surroundings.

LIGHT

When we have sought Him vainly otherwhere—
Have closed our books and hushed our idle prayer,
Too weary and heart-sore
To seek Him any more—
And, loving yet our human kindred, go,
Forgetting self, to work with them, nor know
By lonely paths benign
We reach the height divine:
Then, mid the living world where He hath wrought,
In some chance word, or thought, or glimpse of thought,
When all our search is past,
We may see God at last.