Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TODAY'S BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Arise, depart, for this is not your rest
Last Line: Nor have those rest who wrestle and who fall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


'ARISE, depart, for this is not your rest.' --
Oh burden of all burdens, still to arise
And still depart nor rest in any wise!
Rolling, still rolling thus from East to West,
Earth journeys on her immemorial quest,
Whom a moon chases in no different guise.
Thus stars pursue their courses, and thus flies
The sun, and thus all creatures manifest
Unrest the common heritage, the ban Flung broadcast to all humankind, on all
Who live -- for, living, all are bound to die.
That which is old, we know that it is man.
These have no rest who sit and dream and sigh,
Nor have those rest who wrestle and who fall.





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