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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PALIMPSEST, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography
First Line: The rest / of our life must be a palimpsest
Last Line: As 'mid moonbeams shifted through a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Time
First Line: The rest / of our life must be a palimpsest
Last Line: As 'mid moonbeams shifted through a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Time
... The rest
Of our life must be a palimpsest—
The old writing written there the best.
In the parchment hoary
Lies a golden story,
As 'mid secret feathers of a dove,
As 'mid moonbeams shifted through a cloud.
Let us write it over,
O my lover,
For the far time to discover,
As 'mid secret feathers of a dove,
As 'mid moonbeams shifted through a cloud.
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