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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YESTERDAY, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art to me like all the days
Last Line: Thou still art childhood's long ago!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Day
First Line: Thou art to me like all the days
Last Line: Thou still art childhood's long ago!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Day
THOU art to me like all the days --
They ebb and flow with punctual tides,
Leave driftwood -- wreckage on the sands,
Perhaps a shell besides;
Swift, incommunicable, vast,
They poise -- then perish in the past.
And yet I have not all forgot
Those years when every day seemed long,
A separate age of joys and play,
Of wonder-tales and song;
I marvel, Yesterday, to know
Thou still art childhood's Long Ago!
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