Love
Where? When? How?
From The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles
Where? Tell me what shall be the spot
Where I shall rest from earthly care?
You need not tell — it matters not,
To senseless dust and ashes — where!
When? Shall it be my mortal fate
Longer or shorter to remain
Waiting for death or soon or late?
How little does it matter when!
How? That is wrapt in mystery;
I ask not its solution now:
He who directs all issues,— He
And He alone can order — how!
But this my trust, my joy shall be,
The where, the when, the how, are His
Whose infinite benignity
Is love and light, and peace and bliss!
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MLA
Bowring, John. “Where? When? How?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bowring/0/.
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Bowring, John. “Where? When? How?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bowring/0/.
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