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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FUTILITY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair nature, has thy wisdom naught to say?
Last Line: If the heart pine, the very stars will pale.
First Line: Fair nature, has thy wisdom naught to say?
Last Line: If the heart pine, the very stars will pale.
Fair Nature, has thy wisdom naught to say
To cheer thy child in a disconsolate hour?
Why do thy subtle hands betray their power
And but half-fashioned leave thy finer clay?
Upon what journeys doth thy fancy stray
That weeds in thy broad garden choke the flower,
And many a pilgrim harboured in thy bower
A stranger came, a stranger went away?
Ah, Mother, little can the soul avail
Unchristened at some font of ancient love.
What boots the vision if the meaning fail,
When all the marvels of the skies above
March to the passions they are mirrors of?
If the heart pine, the very stars will pale.
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