Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DRINK DEEP, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS


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First Line: Drink deep of life as its illusive day
Last Line: O may we still like gods be drinking deep!
Subject(s): Life


Drink deep of Life as its illusive day
Dies out like footsteps down a midnight street;
It fades like roses cast in dust, is fleet
As light; amid a deluge of dismay
Man sees his high and daring hopes decay,
His orient and glowing visions greet
His gaze with senile leer of deep deceit
And soon in utter darkness die away.

Drink deep of Life to pack each priceless hour
With royal deeds that check the cruel whips
Of fate and ease the grave's excessive sleep;
The wine of Life is Wisdom's psychic power
When Death will dash the glass from thirsty lips
O may we still like Gods be drinking deep!





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