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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONCLUSION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS
First Line: There is an ending, even to these things
Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken?
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man
First Line: There is an ending, even to these things
Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken?
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man
There is an ending, even to these things
That we have loved so fondly and so long—
Folding at sunset of outwearied wings
In stillness immemorial as song.
There is an ending that we go to meet,
That makes no matter of these anxious years,
Loud with impassioned protest, bitter-sweet
With squandered pity and rejected tears.
What gall and honey of what old regrets
Shall be commingled when we come to pay,
Reluctant in humility, our debts?
Will there be kindness then, and time to say
The valedictions that we might have spoken
More graciously before our hearts were broken?
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