Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEED AND FLOWER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: The seed-time of this lovely life
Last Line: A thousand years and more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love


The seed-time of this lovely life,
So long, so long ago;
Before it grew and came to flower —
No man shall ever know.

How long it lay within this Earth,
We shall not understand;
We can but guess from whence it came,
And Bless the Vanished Hand.

We'll never know the seed, my Love,
But here's a life in flower —
To kiss and smell, and call it sweet
A thousand years and more!





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