Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EAGLE SONNETS: 1, by CLEMENT WOOD


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EAGLE SONNETS: 1, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been sure of three things all my life
Last Line: Know, man is sure of three, and never more.
Subject(s): Knowledge


I have been sure of three things all my life.
The first is that I am -- a final one
That yields no room for doubt or windy strife --
More certain than the blazing of the sun.
The second, that I was -- a fainter fact,
Broken by sudden blanks and curious lapses;
A shadow to each living thought and act,
Yet shadowed by a host of vague perhapses.
The third and last of these, that I will be:
A moment leading to a lengthening span,
A fragment formed of continuity,
A child forever growing into man.
Three things are sure. . . . O you who grope for four,
Know, man is sure of three, and never more.





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