Poem February 28, 1948 Issue

CHANGE OF HEART

Peter J. Henniker Heaton

The heart of Love is always strong and sound:
God knows no other heart.
Forever equal to the hour's demand,
it can sustain no shock, can take no hurt.

The heart of Love is warm and deeply tender,
not hard or cold or cruel;
no weary disillusion dims the splendor
that lights the shining heart of all things real.

The heart of Love is never breached or broken;
at ease, at peace, at one,
alone, but never lonely or forsaken,
the heart of Love is satisfied with man.

The false, material, personal sense of heart,
as dust to dust, withdraws.
Healed and released, we see the lie depart
with all its empty griefs, its shadowy joys.

There are not many hearts, but one heart only—
quick, eager, glad, alive,
forever acting strongly and serenely,
inviolate, single, whole—the heart of Love.

Peter J. Henniker Heaton

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