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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath this vast serene of sky
Last Line: The humming of the bees that pass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: Beneath this vast serene of sky
Last Line: The humming of the bees that pass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mortality
BENEATH this vast serene of sky
Where worlds are but as mica dust,
From age to age the wind goes by;
Unnumbered summer burns the grass.
On granite rocks, at rest from strife,
The aeons lie in lichen rust.
Then what is man's so brittle life? --
The humming of the bees that pass!
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