Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A FRIEND, WHO DEPLORED BRIEF LIFE OF LITERARY PERSONALITY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON


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TO A FRIEND, WHO DEPLORED BRIEF LIFE OF LITERARY PERSONALITY, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is most true - and most untrue
Last Line: Our thought is living -- and lives on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation


IT is most true -- and most untrue!
Though all should die of Me and You
And all of later men who press
This weary ball, 'tis like, no less,
That our stray thistle-down of thought
Claimed of some winnowing breeze, and brought
To some safe seeding-place, may lie
Securely there, and fructify;
And -- in a world still out of joint --
May serve some bard for starting-point
Of some yet larger utterance whence
New bards shall borrow, aeons hence.

What skills it then, though We be done:
Our thought is living -- and lives on!





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