LX.
Let that which is to come be as it may,
Darkness, extinction, justice, life intense,
The flies are happy in the summer day,
Flies will be happy many summers hence.
Time with his antique breeds that built the Sphinx,
Time with her men to come whose wings will tower,
Poured and will pour, not as the wise man thinks,
But with blind force, to each his little hour.
And when the hour has struck, comes death or change,
Which, whether good or ill we cannot tell,
But the blind planet will wander through her range
Bearing men like us who will serve as well.
The sun will rise, the winds that ever move
Will blow our dust that once were men in love.
NOTE
Some seven or eight of these poems have appeared serially in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, the Yale Review, The Forge, Contemporary Verse, and Science Progress; others have been issued privately, in a book now out of print; the rest are new.
J. M.
LONDON,
February 1, 1917.
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