Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PERSEVERANCE, by LEONARDO DA VINCI


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First Line: In facile natures fancies grow quickly
Last Line: The perfect fruit of all we are would see.
Subject(s): Life; Perseverance


In facile natures fancies quickly grow,
But such quick fancies have but little root.
Soon the narcissus flowers and dies, but slow
The tree whose blossoms shall mature to fruit.
Grace is a moment's happy feeling, Power
A life's slow growth; and we for many an hour
Must strain and toil, and wait and weep, if we
The perfect fruit of all we are would see.




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