Classic Poem

I see your face, dear Friend,
Beyond the mountains and across the years,
And memory lingers till the sunset hues all blend
Their rainbow beauty in a mist of tears.

I see your radiant face
Beyond the clouds that hide the years to come
In fields of circumstance and shadowlands of space,
In guesses of the years and dreams of home.

I meet you in the light,
Far, far above the marshlands of despair,
Where love eternal never glooms to sudden night
And never sickness is. I meet you there.

More near than time or space,
The barriers of dream all broken down,
Alone in God's great atmosphere, and face to face
Beneath the firmament, we claim our own.