After All

“I thought your search was over.”—”So I thought.”
“But you are seeking still.”—”Yes, even so:
Still seeking in mine own despite below
That which in heaven alone is found unsought:
Still spending for that thing which is not bought.”
“Then chase no more this shifting empty show.”—
“Amen: so bid a drowning man forego
The straw he clutches: will he so be taught?
You have a home where peace broods like a dove,
Screened from the weary world’s loud discontent:
You have home here: you wait for home” above.
I must unlearn the pleasant ways I went:
Must learn another hope, another love,
And sigh indeed for home in banishment.”