Versamelde gedigte

(1980)–C. Louis Leipoldt– rechtenstatus


[Your hand in mine and yours and yours] Your hand in mine and yours and yours Take up the loosened threads of love And all that sympathy ensures Shall be revealed as from above The hushed repose that hallowed thought Brings to the eager heart that yearns For some brief message to be brought
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In shapes that mundane reason spurns The blessed hope that some high hand May stretching thro' the wastes that loom 'Twixt past and present in the gloom Touch yours that you might understand The sure conviction that this life, Which lived in love itself is love, Will struggling onward thro' all strife Sublime itself all life above. M.P.O. Burgers-versameling