Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND



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First Line: When time, who changes men and everything
Last Line: So love the spot, which thoughts of her convey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile


WHEN Time, who changes men and everything,
O'er this fair spot shall cast forgetfulness,
And oak and fir to ground in ruin fling,
Corpses which must decay and worms possess,--

Who knows if from the chaos ages bring,
Restoring woods and long past loveliness,
History to our posterity shall sing,
What kings used here their prey in chase to press?

Perhaps to future far-off times my strain
Will sing--'She passed two months at Montfontaine,
And those two months for us passed as a day.'
And hence it is that flowers and timid does,
And birds, and poets who love-lays compose,
So love the spot, which thoughts of her convey.





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