Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COURTESY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS


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First Line: In the beginning of time
Last Line: On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat.
Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations


IN the beginning of time
When, mingling night and day in your slender youth,
Sole created being
To move on creation, its sovereign meaning and mistress,—
When you came, dusky and brilliant,
And paused to greet me
(Me, also a god being your opposite and equal),
In the beginning first I knew that I loved
When it seemed so foolish, so needless,
So many heart-beats went by
Before I remembered that, in the world of phenomena,
One should always—and I to you, O absurdity!—
On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat.





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