Religion

The Recall

by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837–1909

From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)

Religion

Return, they cry, ere yet your day
Set, and the sky grow stern:
Return, strayed souls, while yet ye may
Return.

But heavens beyond us yearn;
Yea, heights of heaven above the sway
Of stars that eyes discern.

The soul whose wings from shoreward stray
Makes toward her viewless bourne
Though trustless faith and unfaith say,
Return.

MLA

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “The Recall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/275/.

Chicago

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “The Recall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/275/.

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