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CHANGE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

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First Line: BUT NOW LIFE'S FACE BEHOLDEN
Last Line: BUT NOW!
Subject(s): CHANGE; LIFE; LOVE; ROUNDELS;
BUT now life's face beholden
Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow
With hope of gifts withholden
But now.

From time's full-flowering bough
Each bud spake bloom to embolden
Love's heart, and seal his vow.

Joy's eyes grew deep with olden
Dreams, born he wist not how;
Thought's meanest garb was golden;
But now!



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