Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VITA BREVIS EST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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First Line: The gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love
Last Line: Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; Love; World; Paradise


THE gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love,
The earth beneath and the heaven above;
Swift chance, swift change, be it worst or best,
Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest.





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