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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REINCARNATION, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poet's Biography
First Line: I too remember distant golden days
Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity.
Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
First Line: I too remember distant golden days
Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity.
Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
I TOO remember distant golden days
When even my soul was young; I see the sand
Whirl in a blinding pillar towards the band
Of orange sky-line 'neath a turquoise blaze—
(Some burnt-out sky spread o'er a glistening land)
—And slim brown jargoning men in blue and gold,
I know it all so well, I understand
The ecstacy of worship ages-old.
Hear the first truth: The great far-seeing soul
Is ever in the humblest husk; I see
How each succeeding section takes its toll
In fading cycles of old memory.
And each new life the next life shall control
Until perfection reach Eternity.
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