Forever at His Side to Walk
poem 246
Forever at His Side to Walk - meaning Summary
Companionship Beyond Death
The poem presents a speaker who imagines absolute unity with a beloved: a merged identity (“Brain of His Brain, Blood of His Blood”) and shared fate. The speaker accepts both grief and joy as parts of a single life and is willing to subordinate personal pleasure to the beloved s welfare. The afterlife is imagined not as static bliss but as a progressive revelation—"Heaven" becomes a place where human puzzles are finally understood and social intimacy is completed. The tone mixes personal devotion, self-sacrifice, and hopeful curiosity about posthumous knowledge.
Read Complete AnalysesForever at His side to walk The smaller of the two! Brain of His Brain Blood of His Blood Two lives One Being now Forever of His fate to taste If grief the largest part If joy to put my piece away For that beloved Heart All life to know each other Whom we can never learn And bye and bye a Change Called Heaven Rapt Neighborhoods of Men Just finding out what puzzled us Without the lexicon!
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