Sunlight dancing, and the Earth Is stalked of shadows. Night hangs, and the shadows Possess Earth. Yet at morning, where go the old shadows? And at evening where do the new ones tarry? Oh, ye hosts of shadows, Where thy land? Sunlight cometh, and man Stalketh the Earth, and at eve He lieth down amid the shadows, Fellowing with them. He waketh Unto new light, but wearieth For the shadows. Oh, shadows, where is thy land? You shadow, you were the shade Of a leaf, and the leaf is gone. Even so are you. Man hath gone, and his shadow Accompanied him. Where to? Man was; even so the leaf And the shadows; then they May not be finished. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOST AND FOUND by GEORGE MACDONALD THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 18 by OMAR KHAYYAM ODE [FOR MUSIC] ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY by ALEXANDER POPE ILICET by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE ALBION QUEENS, ACT 1: THE WONDER by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) |