Because Of You

Because of You
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Sweet have I known the blossoms of the morning
Tenderly tinted to their hearts of dew;
But now my flowers have found a fuller fragrance
Because of you

Long have I worshiped in my soul’s enshrining
High visions of the noble and the true;
Now all my aims and all my prayers are purer
Because of you

Wise have I seen the uses of life’s labor,
To all its puzzles found some answering clue;
But now my life has learned a nobler meaning
Because of you

In the past days I chafed at pain and waiting,
Grasping at gladness as the children do;
Now it is sweet to wait and joy to suffer
Because of you

In the long years of silences that part us,
Dimmed by my tears and darkened to my view,
Close shall I hold my memories and my madness
Because of you

Whether our lips shall touch or hands shall hunger
Whether our love be fed or joys be few,
Life will be sweeter and more worth the living
Because of you
Almonm Hensley