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


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First Line: Since all is vanity - o shrewdest preacher!
Last Line: Surely the wiser part would be to end it!
Subject(s): Despair; Mankind; Human Race


Since all is vanity -- O shrewdest preacher! --
Since death and dust are sure, for all our hoping,
Why then should man, discriminating creature,
Continue in his unproductive groping?
What is the gain of all the painful scramble,
The hours of patient building in the sun,
When the sure sea, the hour alone a gamble,
Will wash away our ramparts one by one?
Why taste the joy embittered by the pain?
Why starve the spirit pale, in serving duty?
What use the chase of good repute or gain,
And the mad hungry servitude to beauty?
This life is worthless: then why wait to spend it?
Surely the wiser part would be to end it!





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