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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POSTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: A year's a post, on which
Last Line: Alas!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Time
First Line: A year's a post, on which
Last Line: Alas!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Time
A year's a post, on which
It saith
The distance -- growing less --
To Death.
Some posts I missed, beguiled
By Song
And Beauty, as I passed
Along.
But sad am I to think
This day
Of forty posts passed on
My way.
For not one post I now
Must pass
Will 'scape these eyes of mine,
Alas!
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