Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO AN OLD, OLD BOOK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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TO AN OLD, OLD BOOK, by                    
First Line: To what strange chance, thou sere and yellow books
Last Line: Thy wisdom taught cannot for aye grow old.
Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Wisdom; Reading


To what strange chance, thou sere and yellow book,
Am I indebted for thy presence here?
Who brought thee forth from thy obscurity
And bade the ribald present pause and look
Upon the confined wisdom of a year
Long since engulfed in the Eternity?

Thou'rt but a link in the forged chain of Time
Which fetters cycles and an eon's years,
Methink'st thy hoop hath welded been of gold,
And binds thy past to present days of mine,
Nor weights my soul with joyless, doleful fears,
Thy wisdom taught cannot for aye grow old.





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