ALL THAT'S PAST
by: Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
- ERY old are the woods;
- And the buds that break
- Out of the briar's boughs,
- When March winds wake,
- So old with their beauty are--
- Oh, no man knows
- Through what wild centuries
- Roves back the rose.
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- Very old are the brooks;
- And the rills that rise
- Where snow sleeps cold beneath
- The azure skies
- Sing such a history
- Of come and gone,
- Their every drop is as wise
- As Solomon.
- Very old are we men;
- Our dreams are tales
- Told in dim Eden
- By Eve's nightingales;
- We wake and whisper awhile,
- But, the day gone by,
- Silence and sleep like fields
- Of amaranth lie.
"All That's Past" is reprinted from Poems of Today. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1921. |
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