The End of the Book

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



My work is finished that has been to me
       My only solace for this many a day.
But whether it in other company
       May so beguile the time and hue the ray
       Of loneliness and thought, I dare not say;
Nor whether with the future it shall be
A thing of note, nor whether presently
       ’Tis doomed to waste like a thin mist away.
Yet whatsoever be its worldly lot,
       I know that, hive-like, it with love is stored,
And that through all its pages I have not
       Written one wilfully misleading word,
       Or traced one feeling that my heart ignored—
One line that truth has counselled me to blot.   

 

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABABBAABCDCEDC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 632
Words 112
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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