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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPEEDING YEARS, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: How swift the years roll on, my friend, how
Last Line: Homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on!
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue
First Line: How swift the years roll on, my friend, how
Last Line: Homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on!
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue
HOW swift the years roll on, my friend, how swift the years roll on! They come
and make their bows and bend, they smile and then they're gone! Some morning, in
the mirror's face, we see a snowy hair; and ere we've time to dye the place, a
hundred more are there. But yesterday my locks were brown, and life seemed in
its dawn, and now the gray spreads o'er my crown—how swift the years roll
on! But yesterday I held a child upon my willing knee; an infant innocent and
mild, and beautiful was he; and now in tones of bass he speaks, he's learned to
toil and spin, and he has whiskers on his cheeks, and more upon his chin. Oh,
can this be that little child, this man of weight and brawn? How can the two be
reconciled? How swift the years roll on! But yesterday my limbs were free from
stiffness, pain and ache; and I could climb the tallest tree, or swim across a
lake. But if I walk a block today, my wind and strength are gone; they take me
homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on!
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