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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE, by HUMPHRY DAVY
First Line: Our life is like a cloudy sky, midst mountains
Last Line: Which is the future life beyond the grave!
Subject(s): Life
First Line: Our life is like a cloudy sky, midst mountains
Last Line: Which is the future life beyond the grave!
Subject(s): Life
OUR life is like a cloudy sky, midst mountains,
When in the blast the watery vapours float.
Now gleams of light pass o'er the lovely hills,
And make the purple heath and russet bracken
Seem lovelier, and the grass of brighter green;
And now a giant shadow hides them all.
And thus it is, that in all earthly distance
On which the sight can fix, still fear and hope,
Gloom and alternate sunshine, each succeeds.
So of another and an unknown land
We see the radiance of the clouds reflected,
Which is the future life beyond the grave!
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