Читать книгу Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 - Various - Страница 3

'Tis wise, in summer-warmth, to look before,

To the keen-nipping winter; it is good,

In lifeful hours, to lay aside some store

Of thought, to leaven the spirit's duller mood;

To mould the sodded dyke, in sunny hour,

Against the coming of the wasteful flood;

Still tempering Life's extremes, that Wo no more

May start abrupt in Joy's sweet neighborhood.

If Day burst sudden from the bars of Night,

Or with one plunge leaped down the sheer abyss,

Painful alike were darkness and the light,

Bearing fixed war through shifting victories;

But sweet their bond, where peaceful twilight lingers,

Weaving the rosy with the sable fingers.