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THESE SWEET, SWIFT HOURS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These sweet, swift hours, though they be so few
Last Line: These sweet, swift hours that I have with you!
Subject(s): Love; Transience; Impermanence


THESE sweet, swift hours, though they are so few,
Are green oases in my desert heart;
They hearten me for all the other hours
That know you not, that keep us far apart.

In the dim aisles of my dull life's routine
They gleam like golden tapers in the dark;
They are to me as to the silent dawn
The sudden singing of the soaring lark.

They are rare jewels that are tossed to me,
Not as a gift, but carelessly by fate.
And yet, I hoard and guard them jealously.
For all that I have not, they compensate.

But they are few, dear God, they are so few,
These sweet, swift hours that I have with you!





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