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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PASSAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When you deliberate the page
Last Line: In a moon's course, are history.
Subject(s): Easter; History; Holidays; The Resurrection; Historians
First Line: When you deliberate the page
Last Line: In a moon's course, are history.
Subject(s): Easter; History; Holidays; The Resurrection; Historians
WHEN you deliberate the page
Of Alexander's pilgrimage,
Or say -- "It is three years, or ten,
Since Easter slew Connolly's men,"
Or prudently to judgment come
Of Antony or Absalom,
And think how duly are designed
Case and instruction for the mind,
Remember then that also we,
In a moon's course, are history.
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