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THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE CENTAUR by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: I WOULD NOT CHANGE -- DID NOT THE WATERS
Last Line: THOU HAST A GOAL!
Subject(s): CENTAURS; LIFE; TIME;
I would not change -- did not the waters
Did not the winds, all living things
Proclaim that we, the sons and daughters
Of Time's first kings,

That we must change and pass and perish
Even as autumnal leaves that fall;
Even as the wind the hill-flowers cherish,
At Winter's call:

That we, even we, should know no morrow,
For as our body, so our soul:
O human, fair thy life of sorrow,
Thou hast a Goal!



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