THE TURNING OF THE TIDE.
Failure is mine, but through the thrusting spears
I see the triumphs of the coming years.
Fate’s ebb and flow has ever been our part,
But, ah, the stranded sea-wrack of the heart.
Ne’er shines so bright a triumph but shall keep
The shadow of its failure’s shadowy sleep.
Cecil French.
MLA citation:
French, Cecil. “The Turning of the Tide,” decorated by Pamela Colman Smith. The Green Sheaf, No. 5, 1903, p. 11. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/GSV5-french-tide/