Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN


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LIFE, by                    
First Line: Blindly to grope, and start e'er break of day
Last Line: And since god wills it so, so let it be.


BLINDLY to grope, and start e'er break of day,
Without or power or wish to ask the way.
To drag from fall to fall our tottering feet;
By noon our journey's third part scarce complete.
Then o'er our heads to see dark clouds arise,
Quicksands and treacherous marsh our steps surprise
To run 'mid storms on storms before, behind,
Toward some uncertain goal we ne'er shall find;
At eve enlightened, for some port to flee,
Gasping to reach, and there in slumber lie.
This to be born we call, to live, to die;
And since God wills it so, so let it be.





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