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IN THE CLOISTERS
WINCHESTER COLLEGE, I
I walked to-day where Past and Present meet,In that grey cloister eloquent of years,
Which ever groweth old, yet ever hears
The same glad echo of unaging feet.
Only from brass and stone some quaint conceit,
The monument of long-forgotten tears,
Whispers of vanished lives, of spent careers,
And hearts that, beating once, have ceased to beat.
And as I walked, I heard the boys who played
Beyond the quiet precinct, and I said—
“How broad the gulf which deliving Time has made
Between those happy living and these dead.”
And, lo, I spied a grave new-garlanded,
And on the wall a boyish face that prayed.
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