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SONG by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN

First Line: THE WORLD IS YOUNG TODAY: / FORGET THE GODS ARE OLD
Last Line: IS PALPABLE -- AND LOVE.
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE; DEAD, THE;

THE world is young today:
Forget the gods are old,
Forget the years of gold
When all the months were May.

A little flower of Love
Is ours, without a root,
Without the end of fruit,
Yet -- take the scent thereof.

There may be hope above,
There may be rest beneath;
We see them not, but Death
Is palpable -- and Love.



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