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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SENTIMENTAL HISTORY, by MARJORIE MEEKER
First Line: Resistless time, they said, would break
Last Line: This burning blade with perilous edges.
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Resistless time, they said, would break
Last Line: This burning blade with perilous edges.
Subject(s): Time
Resistless time, they said, would break
And temper the aloof and frigid
Stillness she said; and time would take
The pride too sure, the will too rigid.
The hard gray grinding of each day,
The fine attrition of each second,
Cut and carved and smoothed away
More than they had wished or reckoned,
Leaving the unsuspected bright
Core of her, gay with mocking pledges,
This quick and dazzling lance of light,
This burning blade with perilous edges.
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