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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poet's Biography
First Line: In the first languid dawning reigns
Last Line: Munching his way through eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von
First Line: In the first languid dawning reigns
Last Line: Munching his way through eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von
In the first languid dawning reigns
The morning-moon, clear ere she wanes.
The sky is washed with cooling blue,
The wind snips pearls from off the dew.
Peace trembles: violent with dooms,
Day, the vast sullen monster, looms,
Bellows and bites and makes things fly
And shows what living is thereby.
On his swift course the bright sun glows,
Now ruddy eve, now midnight goes.
In the first languid dawning reigns
The morning-moon, clear ere she wanes.
Time munches, munches, steadily,
Munching his way through eternity.
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