Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHANGING EVER, by CHARLES B. NOBLE


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CHANGING EVER, by                    
First Line: We're happy, time, so stop with us
Last Line: And we be changed tomorrow.
Subject(s): Happiness; Time; Joy; Delight


We're happy, Time, so stop with us.
Why hurry you along?
Just stay right here. You really must
When life is such a song.

Love, hope, and friends, we have, and prime
Rich deeds, and homely cheer.
So sheathe your scythe, Old Father Time,
And let us stop right here.

"Move on! Move on!" the stern words fall,
And Time, year after year,
Must bring both joy and funeral pall.
He cannot linger here.

We cannot ever be as now
In pleasure or in sorrow.
Old Father Time his swath must mow,
And we be changed tomorrow.





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