Mundi et Cordis De Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis: Carmina. Poems and Sonnets. By Thomas Wade |
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XXXV. THE UN-CHARMED.
My pierced life was all ablood with sorrow!For, suddenly, the veil of beauty thrown
By glorifying Youth o'er sweet To-Morrow
Fell, and disclosed to me the Future's frown;
Within the wrinkles of whose unread brow
There was a lurking something which till then
I dream'd not hung before the lives of men,
Ready to fall upon them as they grow
Into the longer knowledge of brief years:
Blank vacancy; and doubt; and strangled tears,
That never reach the eyelids; vanishing
Of all sweet things we love; death-beds; and graves;
And shadowy wrecks, where pale hopes trembling cling,
Heart-faint, and stifled by continual waves!
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