Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON ARRIVING ANYWHERE IN TIME FOR ANYTHING, by CHARLES WILLIAMS


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ON ARRIVING ANYWHERE IN TIME FOR ANYTHING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How good the universe can be!-what now?
Last Line: In this appointment kept, this fulfilled choice?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time


HOW good the Universe can be!—What now?
How many fail this moment from their assigned
Fixed hour! is the Universe then blind
To them, or does it turn a hostile brow
Upon their needs and to me favour show
Having a variable and lawless mind,
Benevolent now and now again unkind,
Luck in its depth as on its surface? No,
But if the myriad wills that live and work
In its will, so fall that this hour is free,
Foiling the contradiction we feel lurk
In all things, shall not the Universe rejoice
Through its whole mind, with its least child, with me,
In this appointment kept, this fulfilled choice?





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