Poem “Guerdon” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Maurine and Other Poems

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Guerdon

Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year
         I saw a tear.
Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow
         So soon a sorrow.
Just then the sunlight fell with sudden flame:
         The tear became
A wond’rous diamond sparkling in the light—
         A beauteous sight.

Upon my soul there fell such woeful loss,
         I said, “The Cross
Is grievous for a life as young as mine.”
         Just then, like wine,
God’s sunlight shone from His high Heavens down;
         And lo! a crown
Gleamed in the place of what I thought a burden—
         My sorrow’s guerdon.

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