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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE THINGS THAT ENDURE, SELECTION, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS
First Line: What wish you, immortality?
Last Line: But footsteps in the sand—endure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Immortality; Permanence
First Line: What wish you, immortality?
Last Line: But footsteps in the sand—endure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Immortality; Permanence
What wish you, immortality?
Then of frail visions become the wooer.
Stone cities melt like mist away,
But footsteps in the sand—endure.
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