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OH KNELL OF A PASSING TIME by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Numbered to pass away
Subject(s): TIME; TRANSIENCE;
Oh knell of a passing time,
Will it never cease to chime?
Oh stir of the tedious sea,
Will it never cease to be?
Yea, when night and when day.
Moon and sun, pass away.

Surely the sun burns low.
The moon makes ready to go.
Broad ocean ripples to waste.
Time is running in haste,
Night is numbered, and day
Numbered to pass away.



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