THEY ARE NOT LONG
by: Ernest Dowson
 HEY are
not long, the weeping and the laughter,
- Love and desire and hate:
- I think they have no portion in us after
- We pass the gate.
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- They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
- Out of a misty dream
- Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
- Within a dream.
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'They Are Not Long' is reprinted
from An Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London:
Methuen & Co., 1921. |
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