Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CLOCKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES



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First Line: Still comes no answer to my greatest question
Last Line: One clock or two, there'll be no further winding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Immortality


Still comes no answer to my greatest question –
Am I two clocks, or am I only one?
I know my Body is wound up to go
A certain number of days, and all is done.
But is my mind another clock, wound up
To add its chimes to those immortal spheres;
One clock for Earth, to run its numbered days,
The other for my more-than-mortal years?
That is my question; this, my only finding –
One clock or two, there'll be no further winding.





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