Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP



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First Line: Need from excess - excess from folly growing
Last Line: Profusion's last sad dying speech—'gone! Gone!'
Subject(s): Time


NEED from excess—excess from folly growing,
Keeps Christie's hammer daily, going, going!
Ill-omened prelude! whose dire knell brings on
Profusion's last sad dying speech—'Gone! gone!'





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