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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SERENADE AT SUNSET, by IRENE SUTTON
First Line: The boundaries of the world fall flat
Last Line: When the time comes
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: The boundaries of the world fall flat
Last Line: When the time comes
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
the boundaries of the world fall flat
with no sound
when you go away
and i am standing here on a planet angular with an overgrowth of roofs
chimneys
clothes-lines
forgetting what i had agreed was the reason for all this activity
looking at a city built by dead men for dying men
wondering why it is that the walls and rails survive
served yesterday
serve you and me today
will serve tomorrow (in the event they are spared by war)
when all the time the men who built them knew
the men who are living in them know
that they have only come over from death's house for a little while
and will have to go back
when the time comes
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