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IN DEDICATION OF 'THE CERTAIN HOUR', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over
Last Line: Love for his son.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons


TO ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL II

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over;
One thing unshaken stays:
Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover;
Whereby decays

Each thing save one thing: -- mid this strife diurnal
Of hourly change begot,
Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal,
And changes not; --

Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers
Find altered by-and-bye,
When, with possession, time anon discovers
Trapped dreams must die, --

For he that visions of God, of mankind gathers
One manlike trait alone,
And reverently imputes to Him a father's
Love for his son.





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