Immortality

Arthur Sherburne Hardy 1847 (Andover) – 1930 (Woodstock)



My window is the open sky,
The flower in farthest wood is mine;
I am the heir to all gone by,
The eldest son of all the line.
  
And when the robbers Time and Death
Athwart my path conspiring stand,
I cheat them with a clod, a breath,
And pass the sword from hand to hand!
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 265
Words 57
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet. more…

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