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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WISE MEN HAVE NOT TOLD ME, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM
First Line: The winter long I have fumbled in the dark
Last Line: The why that winters come, and aprils go.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Winter; Dullness; Stupdity
First Line: The winter long I have fumbled in the dark
Last Line: The why that winters come, and aprils go.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Winter; Dullness; Stupdity
The winter long I have fumbled in the dark
Like a white worm hunting for the sun
Between an oak's damp root and its outer bark.
I have heard the night's deep sorrow sing
Across forsaken fields
And felt the nothingness in every thing.
How futile seems the need that cycles turn
To bring an hour of April, so soon then after
To lay her bowers by for autumn to wilt and burn.
The wise have not told me, if they know,
The infinite meaning of it all --
The why that Winters come, and Aprils go.
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