Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | History of a Life | | Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | | DAY dawned;—within a curtained room, | |
| Filled to faintness with perfume, | |
| A lady lay at point of doom. | |
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| Day closed;—a Child had seen the light: | |
| But, for the lady fair and bright, | 5 |
| She rested in undreaming night. | |
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| Spring rose;—the lady’s grave was green; | |
| And near it, oftentimes, was seen | |
| A gentle Boy with thoughtful mien. | |
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| Years fled;—he wore a manly face, | 10 |
| And struggled in the world’s rough race, | |
| And won at last a lofty place. | |
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| And then he died! Behold before ye | |
| Humanity’s poor sum and story; | |
| Life,—Death,—and all that is of Glory. | 15 | | | |
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