I, Who Fade with the Lilacs by William Griffith. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1920. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920.

I, Who Fade with the Lilacs

William Griffith


I, WHO fade with the lilacs
And with the roses fade,
Am sharing this hour with them
Conferring in the shade.

Life has not left the wonder	5
With which it first began
To make Pierrot a poet,
In making him a man.

It has not made a rainbow,
In all the sorry years,	10
But was a sailing glory
Upon a sea of tears.

Somehow life leaves one stranded
On shores too near or far,
Hitching, forever hitching	15
Ships—shallops to a star. New York Sun Books and the Book World