Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir

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Author: Robert F. Murray

The Outcast’s Farewell

The sun is banished,
The daylight vanished,
No rosy traces
Are left behind.
Here in the meadow
I watch the shadow
Of forms and faces
Upon your blind.

Through swift transitions,
In new positions,
My eyes still follow
One shape most fair.
My heart delaying
Awhile, is playing
With pleasures hollow,
Which mock despair.

I feel so lonely,
I long once only
To pass an hour
With you, O sweet!
To touch your fingers,
Where fragrance lingers
From some rare flower,
And kiss your feet.

But not this even
To me is given.
Of all sad mortals
Most sad am I,
Never to meet you,
Never to greet you,
Nor pass your portals
Before I die.

All men scorn me,
Not one will mourn me,
When from their city
I pass away.
Will you to-morrow
Recall with sorrow
Him whom with pity
You saw to-day?

Outcast and lonely,
One thing only
Beyond misgiving
I hold for true,
That, had you known me,
You would have shown me
A life worth living -
A life for you.

Yes: five years younger
My manhood’s hunger
Had you come filling
With plenty sweet,
My life so nourished,
Had grown and flourished,
Had God been willing
That we should meet.

How vain to fashion
From dreams and passion
The rich existence
Which might have been!
Can God’s own power
Recall the hour,
Or bridge the distance
That lies between?

Before the morning,
From pain and scorning
I sail death’s river
To sleep or hell.
To you is given
The life of heaven.
Farewell for ever,
Farewell, farewell!

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Chicago: Robert F. Murray, "The Outcast’s Farewell," Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CPF698LFU5BDVT2.

MLA: Murray, Robert F. "The Outcast’s Farewell." Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CPF698LFU5BDVT2.

Harvard: Murray, RF, 'The Outcast’s Farewell' in Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Robert F. Murray: His Poems With a Memoir, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CPF698LFU5BDVT2.