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From a London garden

Chapter 33: RECOMPENSE
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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.

RECOMPENSE

Through day and dark our years go by,
And youth is sweet with dreams that die;
In winter’s wistful sunset gleams
Like ghosts they haunt us from the dead;
But Time, that took away my dreams,
Has given me you instead.
Though youth must pass and none can say
The hour it left him or the day,
Though Time shall take our joys, in sooth,
Who brings us joy again but He?
And when he took away my youth
He gave your love to me.