Inevitable Change
Young as the Spring seemed life when she Came from her silent East to me; Unquiet as Autumn was my breast When she declined into her West. Such tender, such untroubling things She taught me, daughter of all Springs; Such dusty deathly lore I learned When her last embers redly burned. How should it hap (Love, canst thou say?) Such end should be to so pure day? Such shining chastity give place To this annulling grave's disgrace? Such hopes be quenched in this despair, Grace chilled to granite everywhere? How should--in vain I cry--how should That be, alas, which only could!
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"Young as the Spring seemed life when she..."
Exploring the themes of classic, John Frederick Freeman delivers a powerful performance in "Inevitable Change"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...