If I’m Lost Now
poem 256
If I’m Lost Now - meaning Summary
Favored Then Abandoned
The speaker remembers a moment of sudden spiritual favor — gates opening, angels attending — and contrasts it with a present sense of exile. The poem tracks the shock and personal estrangement of feeling once chosen and now rejected, addressing a second person with the warning that the Savior’s turned face will make that banishment unmistakable. It compresses a trajectory from grace to alienation in spare, direct images.
Read Complete AnalysesIf I’m lost now That I was found Shall still my transport be That once on me those Jasper Gates Blazed open suddenly That in my awkward gazing face The Angels softly peered And touched me with their fleeces, Almost as if they cared I’m banished now you know it How foreign that can be You’ll know Sir when the Savior’s face Turns so away from you
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