This is the mockery of the moving years;
Youth's colour dies, the fervid morning glow
Is gone from off the foreland; slow, slow,
Even slower than the fount of human tears
To empty, the consuming shadow nears
That Time is casting on the worldly show
Of pomp and glory. But falter not; - below
That thought is based a deeper thought that cheers.
Glean thou thy past; that will alone inure
To catch thy heart up from a dark distress;
It were enough to find one deed mature,
Deep-rooted, mighty 'mid the toil and press;
To save one memory of the sweet and pure,
From out life's failure and its bitterness.
Retrospect
Duncan Campbell Scott
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Poem topics: alone, dark, heart, life, memory, time, human, sweet, shadow, deep, failure, morning, pure, colour, save, distress, youth, slow, thought, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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