Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM, by HAROLD KEOGH


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PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM, by                    
First Line: Unwillingly the willow yields to fall
Last Line: And never know what fed the springing seed.
Subject(s): Time


Unwillingly the willow yields to fall
When other trees have met the season's will,
But soon as bare as maple on the hill
Will stand; in time it must surrender all,
But soon enough will hear spring's early call
When northward winging geese will brave the chill,
Their age-old herald duty to fulfill
For sluggard sun when he begins to crawl.

So is it, always was and so will be
When other leaves and geese and you and I
Have drifted down the stream where none will heed.
But spring will stumble up for some to see
And they in time regret its passing by
And never know what fed the springing seed.





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