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UNREGARDING by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: PUT BY THY DAYS LIKE WITHERED FLOWERS
Last Line: SUDDEN AND SOON.
Put by thy days like withered flowers
In twilight hidden away:
Memory shall up-build thee bowers
Sweeter than they.

Hoard not from swiftness of thy stream
The shallowest cruse of tears:
Pools still as heaven shall lovelier dream
In future years.

Squander thy love as she that flings
Her soul away on night;
Lovely are love's far echoings,
Height unto height.

O, make no compact with the sun,
No compact with the moon!
Night falls full-cloaked, and light is gone
Sudden and soon.



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