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First Line: The end has come, which never seems the end
Last Line: On ruin of what was they may not build.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Houses


THE end has come, which never seems the end;
And thou and I, who loved so long and well,
Find at the last our Fate implacable, --
Stern Fate, who wills not that our lives shall blend,
And overthrows fair things we did intend.
The house in which long time we thought to dwell,
Was built upon a ruin -- so it fell.
Great was the fall, which no man could defend.

Behold it lies there overthrown, that house!
In its fair halls no comer shall carouse;
Its broad rooms with strange silences are filled;
No fire upon its crumbling hearth shall glow --
Seeing its desolation, men shall know
On ruin of what was they may not build.







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