The Years



As comes amain the glossy flying raven,
            That with unwavering wing, breast on the view,
         Cleaves slow the lucid air beneath the blue,
        And seems scarce other than a figure graven -
        Ha! now the sweeping pinions flash as levin,
            And all their silken cordage whistles loud! -
            Lo, the departing flight, like fleck of cloud,
        Is swallowed quick by the awaiting heaven!

        So lag and tarry, to the youth, the years
            In their oncoming from the brooding sky,
                Till bursts at middle life their rushing speed
        All breathless with the world of hopes and fears;
            And, lo, departing, the Eternal Eye
                Winks them to moments in His endless brede!
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Scheme ABBAXCCA DEFDEF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 746
Words 110
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6

Theodore Harding Rand

Theodore Harding Rand (8 February 1835 – 29 May 1900) was a Canadian educator and poet. more…

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