Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECLIPSES, by CHARLES FRANCIS RICHTER


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ECLIPSES, by                    
First Line: The sun went out in borneo
Last Line: As hopeless as a distant star.
Subject(s): Eclipses


The sun went out in Borneo
Long before I began to see;
The sun will blink out in Peru
When not one bone remains of me;
But even in my scanty time
It will be more than I can do
To watch eclipses of the sun
In Borneo and in Peru.
Not only stars are set beyond
Everything but our vain desire;
Not only are the years too short
Before our stumbling spirits tire;
But every instant flies too fast
Before we catch the tang of it,
Or hands and envious claws reach out
To snatch away the precious bit.
And ways, that open to our feet
Without an obvious check or bar,
Are in this crowded rush of time
As hopeless as a distant star.





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