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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAC ET SPERA, by ANNIE MATHESON Poet's Biography
First Line: Time may have taken
Last Line: As long as men need it.
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: Time may have taken
Last Line: As long as men need it.
Subject(s): Youth
'It is not incumbent on thee to complete the work; but thou must not
therefore cease from it.'—Talmud.
TIME may have taken
The dreams that were dearest:
The work that lies nearest
Must not be forsaken.
Youth's joyous passion
Of faith may have left us:
Pain has not bereft us
Of hands that can fashion.
Obey then the Master!
The furnace is steady,
The bruised metal ready;
Strike, welding it faster!
And when we have finished
Our span's-breadth of action,
That seemed but a fraction,
Dull, dwindled, diminished,
Then He, who is able
To mould it, will take it,
Our fragment, and make it
One link in the cable.
No hurry will speed it.
Yet cease not, nor tarry:
For this chain must carry
As long as men need it.
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