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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 1, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poet's Biography
First Line: I see across the chasm of flying years
Last Line: To wake again where helen and hector move.
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War
First Line: I see across the chasm of flying years
Last Line: To wake again where helen and hector move.
Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War
I SEE across the chasm of flying years
The pyre of Dido on the vacant shore;
I see Medea's fury and hear the roar
Of rushing flames, the new bride's burning tears;
And ever as still another vision peers
Thro' memory's mist to stir me more and more,
I say that surely I have lived before
And known this joy and trembled with these fears.
The passion that they show me burns so high;
Their love, in me who have not looked on love,
So fiercely flames; so wildly comes the cry
Of stricken women the warrior's call above,
That I would gladly lay me down and die
To wake again where Helen and Hector move.
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