TO ONE COMPLAINING OF TIME’S ADVANCES.
Time has taken hostage from me surely Of many things most glorious to my heart: He took youth first; I sickened when I heard it— My door shut by him —his swift feet depart I Once you were young; why, then, not hold your tongue— Say,, it is nothing, once to have been young? You'd have no need to pine in age’s school If you had seized him by the forelock, fool! Time observes continually my going And coming; always while my days exist On every citadel his spearheads showing, Bid me beware my long antagonist! Bid me beware the swift, innumerous sally At gates the moment open for a breath, Continual assault of powerful armies As ineluctable and sure as death. Yet. Time must not defeat but come upon you, A greater foeman put you still to rout — When, one by one, the marching stars beginning, Captain Eternity draws up, without ’ —Harry Kemp, in Munsey’s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3911, 26 February 1929, Page 72
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162TO ONE COMPLAINING OF TIME’S ADVANCES. Otago Witness, Issue 3911, 26 February 1929, Page 72
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