Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain. Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) | ||||||||
AFTER ten thousand centuries have gone, Man will ascend the last long pass to know That all the summits which he saw at dawn Are buried deep in everlasting snow. Below him endless gloomy valleys, chill, Will wreathe and whirl with fighting cloud, driven by the wind's fierce breath; But on the summit, wind and cloud are still: -- Only the sunlight, and death. And staggering up to the brink of the gulf man will look down And painfully strive with weak sight to explore The silent gulfs below which the long shadows drawn; Through every one of these he passed before. Then since he has no further heights to climb, And naught to witness he has come this endless way, On the wind-bitten ice cap he will wait for the last of time, And watch the crimson sunrays fading of the world's latest day: And blazing stars will burst upon him there, Dumb in the midnight of his hope and pain, Speeding no answer back to his last prayer, And, if akin to him, akin in vain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU by HAYDEN CARRUTH ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER |
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