Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 103. WRITTEN AT FLORENCE: 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT



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First Line: O world, in very truth thou art too young
Last Line: Found out his grave to build their honeycombs?


O WORLD, in very truth thou art too young;
When wilt thou learn to wear the garb of age?
World, with thy covering of yellow flowers,
Hast thou forgot what generations sprung
Out of thy loins and loved thee and are gone?
Hast thou no place in all their heritage
Where thou dost only weep, that I may come
Nor fear the mockery of thy yellow flowers?
O world, in very truth thou art too young.
The heroic wealth of passionate emprize
Built thee fair cities for thy naked plains.
How hast thou set thy summer growth among
The broken stones which were their palaces!
Hast thou forgot the darkness where he#1 lies
Who made thee beautiful, or have thy bees
Found out his grave to build their honeycombs?




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