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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POSSIBILITIES, by WINIFRED LUCAS
First Line: Who knows, who knows, what passing thing
Last Line: And hold in check—what seas of pain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Life
First Line: Who knows, who knows, what passing thing
Last Line: And hold in check—what seas of pain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Life
WHO knows, who knows, what passing thing
Into my life to-day may fling,
To be the longest task of all
That life is wont herself to set
How to remember, —or forget,—
How to abandon,—or recall.
For me what beauties that survive
The little actual life they live
May, in the substance, die in vain?
And what delight that's over soon
May round the full of memory's moon,
And hold in check—what seas of pain?
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