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 crimson of the coals, And the swaying flames of the firelight Unrolled such golden scrolls.

    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.