Father Ryan's Poems (6)

    I sit to-night by the firelight, And I look at the glowing flame, And I see in the bright red flashes A Heart, a Face, and a Name.

    How often have I seen pictures Framed in the firelight's blaze, Of hearts, of names, and of faces, And scenes of remembered days！

    How often have I found poems In the crimson¹ of the coals, And the swaying flames of the firelight Unrolled such golden scrolls².

    And my eyes, they were proud to read them, In letters of living flame, But to-night, in the fire, I see only One Heart, one Face, and one.