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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONSUMMATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poet's Biography
First Line: As the clear fountain sparkles on the hill
Last Line: Grows plain before this fair and final day.
First Line: As the clear fountain sparkles on the hill
Last Line: Grows plain before this fair and final day.
As the clear fountain sparkles on the hill
In some flowered basin, at a cool, sweet height,
Yet comes from we guess not what galleried night,
Devious, untraced, and altogether ill, —
So doth my love from other days distil,
Through channels occult groping up to light,
Deeming all labours past as thrice requite
If once thou stoop thy hollowed hand to fill.
Clear eyes that bend upon my love thou hast,
And I would have them cloudless of dismay:
I thank the chastenings of that cryptic past
Where those soiled waters crept their stains away, —
Those slandered days, whose riddle, now, at last,
Grows plain before this fair and final day.
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