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The Stream Of Life

By Arthur Hugh Clough

Topics: classic

O stream descending to the sea,     Thy mossy banks between,     The flowrets blow, the grasses grow,     The leafy trees are green.     In garden plots the children play,     The fields the labourers till,     And houses stand on either hand,     And thou descendest still.     O life descending into death,     Our waking eyes behold,     Parent and friend thy lapse attend,     Companions young and old.     Strong purposes our mind possess,     Our hearts affections fill,     We toil and earn, we seek and learn,     And thou descendest still.     O end to which our currents tend,     Inevitable sea,     To which we flow, what do we know,     What shall we guess of thee?     A roar we hear upon thy shore,     As we our course fulfil;     Scarce we divine a sun will shine     And be above us still.

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Arthur Hugh Clough

About Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) was an English poet whose work explores Victorian doubt and moral uncertainty. His poems "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth" and "The Latest Decalogue" are sharp, thoughtful, and still widely anthologized.

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