The Queen and Other Poems By Richard Garnett |
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TIME AND CHANGE |
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VII
TIME AND CHANGE
Affrighted at his own eternity,
Time Change begot, to soothe with curious show
Disquiet of uneasy soul below,
Bewildered with its being's mystery.
Hail, world-renewing Mutability,
By whom the unimprisoned waters flow,
And the great vault doth darkle or doth glow,
And light and shadow course upon the sea!
Though worlds arise and pass, like drift of spray
Or flake of billow flung upon the shore,
And dying suns like dying brands decay:
Yet of all change not any change so sore
As this the daunted spirit should affray;
If Time were ever still, and Change no more.
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