Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME'S CHAMPION, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY


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TIME'S CHAMPION, by                    
First Line: The things that last forever are no more
Last Line: Carving the moment for eternity.
Subject(s): Time


The things that last forever are no more.
Creeping below the battlements of fear,
Where early wants are wrought into the spear,
The worm of thought comes slowly on to bore
His feeding way through soil of banked beliefs;
Yet though they hear a far persistent rumble
Ignorance and Idolatry hold their fiefs,
High-hearted in a palace that must crumble.
Science has probed eternal things away:
These are of man's own building, and their power
Lasts with the night that set the phantoms free.
Snaring lost gods and dreams into the dower
Of time, alone the artist stands at bay,
Carving the moment for eternity.





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