Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INTERIM, by WILLIAM HAROLD MCCREARY


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INTERIM, by                    
First Line: Let us pause briefly now before we turn
Last Line: Out of the old old ritual of youth.


Let us pause briefly now before we turn
To the clean-swept hearth, and before we light
The tall bay-berry candles that will burn
To an end with the old year. Is it quite
Too late to tell again of loving and hating
And striving always, and of those rare friends
Who when the tale is finished make amends
For this and that, for life's grim jest in mating
The saint with the sinner, the sage with the fool?

Come then, and let us put our hearts to school
For a short space to another master,
Turn the soiled page, forgetting dark disaster;
Let us search keenly now and bring new truth
Out of the old old ritual of youth.





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