FOR ever and for ever The changeless oceans roar: And dash their thundering surges down Upon the sounding shore: Yet this swift soul, this lightning will, Shall these, while they roll on, be still? For ever and for ever The eternal mountains rise, And lift their virgin snows on high To meet the silent skies. Yet shall this soul which measures all, While these stand steadfast, sink and fall? For ever and for ever The swift suns roll through space; From age to age they wax and wane, Each in its ordered place; Yet shall this soul, whose inner eye Foretells their cycles, fade and die? For ever and for ever We have been, and we are, Unchanging as the ocean wave, Unresting as the star: Though suns stand still, and time be o'er, We are, and shall be, evermore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF KAREN, THE DANCING CHILD by KATHERINE MANSFIELD MUSIC by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND by HAYDEN CARRUTH SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM by JAMES GALVIN FOR WALT WHITMAN by DAVID IGNATOW |