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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY
First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink
Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows!
Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day
First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink
Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows!
Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day
I stand with Time upon the planet's brink.
Fancy unwinds her films -- a flashing spool.
Boyhood at marbles near the old red school,
And in the marsh the happy bobolink
Singing to reeds, pauses to dine and drink.
A pert spring voice is crying "April Fool."
Bright is the cowslip's gold, and boggy-cool
Pasque-flowers wet with glorious sun-gems wink.
Once more the hour of Youth, and love-in-shadows;
What heart alive but breathes the lover's tale?
Soft winds are whispering to tender willows,
And when from England's shores fond thoughts prevail,
I hear again what to his Nightingale
Sang Adonais through the Kilbourne meadows!
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