Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAREWELL, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER


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First Line: Each dying day, life comes to some new end
Last Line: Of long-set suns, and rainbow-wreatht in tears.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


Each dying day, Life comes to some new end:
One day, a lover lost; the next, a friend.
My Dreams died once; Realities die now:—
Those clustered faces and waved hands that send
Godspeed and watch the curving last cars wend
Away. I fling my arm across my brow—
One mute mad farewell gesture!—and we tend
At volleying speed around the rocky bend.
The Village falls behind it. Yet a while,
And it hath vanisht over voiceless years:
Dissevered like an insubstantial Isle
From concrete earth: a Lost Land that appears
Illusive, visionary in the smile
Of long-set suns, and rainbow-wreatht in tears.





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