Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by ALEXANDER R. SCHOOLER


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LIFE, by                    
First Line: Life has three parts to its day
Last Line: Our time is out, our race is run.
Subject(s): Day; Time


Life has three parts to its day,
Three steps before we go away.
It has its morning, noon and night;
Yes, morning, noon -- and then twilight.

Its morning is the golden dawn,
And scampers like the fleeting fawn;
With it our fondest hopes arise,
Our ambitions mount to the skies.

Then comes the noonday of our lives,
The time that mortals all should prize;
If mark we make, we make it then,
Or else we say what might have been.

At last our night begins to fall,
It falls on one, it falls on all
Success or failure, our day is done;
Our time is out, our race is run.





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