MUTABILITY
by: William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
- ROM low to high doth dissolution
climb,
- And sink from high to low, along a scale
- Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
- A musical but melancholy chime,
- Which they can hear who meddle not with crime,
- Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
- Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear
- The longest date do melt like frosty rime,
- That in the morning whiten'd hill and plain
- And is no more; drop like the tower sublime
- Of yesterday, which royally did wear
- His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain
- Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
- Or the unimaginable touch of Time.
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