Versos English William Lyon Phelps Xxvi

English poem

Xxvi

by (1865–1943)

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Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,-- Thou, to whom fools propound, When the wine makes its round, "Since life fleets, all is change; the Past gone, seize to-day!"