Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS


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First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun
Last Line: And uncaring give us death.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean


Lo! he traffics with the sun,
He hath dealings with the winds,
With the seas hath business done,
In the stars a kinship finds.

But the elemental powers
In return for love and song,
Do they strew his path with flowers?
Do they shield his steps from wrong?

Ceaselessly, without a pause
Ebb and flow the moving seas,
Ceaselessly the torrent roars
Round the mountain's steadfast knees.

And they care not, foam-flecked tides,
Care not, unperturbed hills,
Whether man his Fate derides
Or his destiny fulfils.

Ah! these mighty powers of earth,
Take the homage of our breath
And uncaring give us birth,
And uncaring give us death.





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