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Some future day when what is now is not

By Arthur Hugh Clough

Topics: classic

Some future day when what is now is not,     When all old faults and follies are forgot,     And thoughts of difference passed like dreams away,     Well meet again, upon some future day.     When all that hindered, all that vexed our love,     As tall rank weeds will climb the blade above,     When all but it has yielded to decay,     Well meet again upon some future day.     When we have proved, each on his course alone,     The wider world, and learnt whats now unknown,     Have made life clear, and worked out each a way,     Well meet again, we shall have much to say.     With happier mood, and feelings born anew,     Our boyhoods bygone fancies well review,     Talk oer old talks, play as we used to play,     And meet again, on many a future day.     Some day, which oft our hearts shall yearn to see,     In some far year, though distant yet to be,     Shall we indeed, ye winds and waters, say!     Meet yet again, upon some future day?

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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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