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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME'S REVENGE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time he would have said
Last Line: No king at all, and scarce a man!
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Once on a time he would have said
Last Line: No king at all, and scarce a man!
Subject(s): Time
Once on a time he would have said
-- Not all the ghouls of sorcery
Can make me hang a craven head
Nor shake a whimper out of me.
For I could top that sullen night,
Or outwear any woe that came,
And look on good or evil plight
As but the chances of a game.
But now a night-hag hath me down!
And I am staring, suddenly,
As one who wakens from renown
To staring notoriety --
The king his diadem shall wear!
The half-king wear what gaud he can
Until Time swings him by the hair,
No king at all, and scarce a man!
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