Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VESTIGIA, by HENRY LONGAN STUART


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First Line: O'er his last cruse of oil-last measure of grain
Last Line: Of earth and leaves on his unthrifty mouth.
Subject(s): Legacies; Love


O'er his last cruse of oil -- last measure of grain,
See Love sit brooding! If no prophet pass,
Bidding the shrunken sack -- the cavernous vase
His wantonness hath spent, be filled again,
No counsel reach him, woven of the refrain
Of ripple of hot winds along dry grass,
Or beat of desert sands, against his glass
Driven, that mock him with the patter of rain,
Once he may eat -- then perish. 'Tis such drouth,
Foredoomed him 'mid his surfeit and disdain
Of husbandry in joy that God alloweth.
. . . Tread softly, man of God, where Love lies slain,
With white fair limbs misshapen, and the stain
Of earth and leaves on his unthrifty mouth.





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