Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DAYS THAT NEVER WERE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR



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First Line: O days that are no more! The lords of song
Last Line: The vision splendid, and the gift sublime!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


"O death in life, the days that are no more!"

O days that are no more! the lords of song
Have sung your dirges, tolled your passing bells,
In tones more sad, more sweet, than funeral knells
Through dim cathedral arches borne along.
Back from the past they call ye, mighty throng!
They wreathe your brows with golden asphodels,
They weave for you all wonder-working spells,
Sounding your praise in chorus full and strong.

But who shall sing the song, O yearning heart!
Of days that might have been, but never were,
Dying unshriven in the womb of Time,
Bearing in all this breathing world no part?
Ah, bring for them the frankincense and myrrh,
The vision splendid, and the gift sublime!





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