Dramatic Scenes With Other Poems, Now First Printed. By Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter]. Illustrated |
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LIFE.
In our youth we learn; in our manhood act.What more? Alas, what more
Is in all Life, Fiction, Fact,
Than to see and hear, toil and strive to soar,
For evermore!
What doth Life contain? what doth bind us here,
In its thorny round?
Is it Hope,—that fadeth? Is it wizard Fear
That enchains our spirits with its whispered sound?
In what cavern drear
Are Life's pleasures found,
When—strewn like leaves around—
Thousands pine and sigh
For a home on high,
Some for gentle rest, beneath the daisied ground?
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