Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME HAS THREE PALACES, by RACHEL LUMPKIN WYLY


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TIME HAS THREE PALACES, by                    
First Line: Time has three palaces that she will loan
Last Line: Are mingling as they near eternity.
Subject(s): Time


Time has three palaces that she will loan
To every one, their paths are wide and free,
And I have used them till they seem my own,
Each friendly gate has welcome smiles for me.

There's one that has a garden, green with trees,
Where mignonette and thyme are blossoming,
And in that land of treasured memories
I live again in days of youthful spring.

But should I tire of dreamy yesterdays --
Though vanished joys in retrospect entreat --
The palace present quickly comes and lays
Its tasks and pleasures down before my feet.

I take the joys the present brings, but still
With hopefulness in my far-questing eyes,
I gaze through distance over a sunlit hill
And wonder where the future palace lies.

But time is flowing on, relentless, fast,
And soon one palace only there will be,
For trails that led to Future, Now and Past
Are mingling as they near eternity.





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