Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BACKWARD LOOK, by RAY CLARKE ROSE


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THE BACKWARD LOOK, by                    
First Line: Back through the years, still unresigned
Last Line: Back through the years.
Subject(s): Life; Past


Back through the years, still unresigned,
We seek for joys long left behind
Unwittingly; we cry aloud
And call the one lost in the crowd
Back where the happy pathways wind.

We look in olden nooks entwined
By autumn's fading vines to find
A loved one's face—we see a shroud,
Back through the years.

Pursuing Life's unending grind,
We 've worked, we 've wept, we 've loved, we 've dined;
We 've fought, and many times been cowed;
We 've broken half the oaths we vowed—
Yet still we search with eager mind
Back through the years.





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