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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
END OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE ELLISTON
First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world
Last Line: Who measure time by years.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man
First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world
Last Line: Who measure time by years.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man
Once I knew that the end of the world
Lay back of twenty years;
Youth knows much, more than faith,
Oh, more than age and tears!
Curious that a truth may change
And be a truth anew;
I came twenty -- the end of the world
Was forty -- and not through --
Moving on, like a will o' the wisp
To fifty, sixty -- more --
Waning but to shine again
As mystic as before.
Now I pledge you, who know at last
Beyond all foolish fears;
The end of the world comes only for those
Who measure time by years.
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