Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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 | Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems |  |
162
IS IT SO?
Is it so? Yester-eve, did you say,
He was taken away,
Without semblance of mercy or ruth
In the bloom of his youth,
Away from the hopes and the fears
Of young passionate years,
And the promise of strength as he grew
To his prime—is it true?
He was taken away,
Without semblance of mercy or ruth
In the bloom of his youth,
Away from the hopes and the fears
Of young passionate years,
And the promise of strength as he grew
To his prime—is it true?
Very hard it must seem to the man
With a cut-and-dried plan
Of creation, which quite supersedes
All the time-honoured creeds,
And allots to each being a sphere
Which is pleasantly clear
While he holds his own place in the rank;—
If he dies, there's a blank.
With a cut-and-dried plan
Of creation, which quite supersedes
All the time-honoured creeds,
And allots to each being a sphere
Which is pleasantly clear
While he holds his own place in the rank;—
If he dies, there's a blank.
But to you who are not narrow-brained
Does it seem unexplained,
Unsolved, like a riddle, this end,
This death of our friend?
Does it seem unexplained,
Unsolved, like a riddle, this end,
This death of our friend?
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