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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON MUTABILITY, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, still upon my cheek I feel their breath
Last Line: Are yet a part of me like my own hair.
Subject(s): Mutability
First Line: Still, still upon my cheek I feel their breath
Last Line: Are yet a part of me like my own hair.
Subject(s): Mutability
STILL, still upon my cheek I feel their breath:
How can it be that days which seem so near
Are gone, forever gone, and lost in death?
This is a thing that none may fully grasp,
A thing too dreadful for the trivial tear:
That all things glide away from out our clasp;
And that this I, unchecked by years, has come
Across into me from a little child
Like some uncanny creature strangely dumb:—
That I existed centuries past—somewhere,
That ancestors on whom the earth is piled
Are yet a part of me like my own hair.
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