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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Earth's night is where she rolls]
[By and by, we shall meet]
[Here they are: how little they are!]
[Pleasure, torture, victory, crime,—]
[“Weary your life was, day by day]
[How swift the days do pass!]
[Hast ever chanced to stare aghast]
[Dull and dumb]
[Perception, Will, Personality]
[Why ever asking “why?” you cry; and I]
[Needs and greeds and ties and lies]
[Out of the land of dreams and youth, alas!]
[Lost chance—never again]
[Soon life ends]
[Who will sorrow when I die?]
[Do what wilt with me]
[“I'm learning, every day.”]
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Blackberries
[By and by, we shall meet]
By
and by, we shall meet
Something truly worth our while,
Shall begin to live at last,
By and by.
By and by, days that fleet
After days, in countless file
Bring one day, like all the past,
And we die.
Blackberries