Time & Brevity
So Wags the World
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (1900)
Time & Brevity
Memory cannot linger long,
Joy must die the death.
Hope's like a little silver song
Fading in a breath.
So wags the weary world away
Forever and a day.
But love, that sweetest madness,
Leaps and grows in toil and sadness,
Makes unseeing eyes to see,
And heapeth wealth in penury.
So wags the good old world away
Forever and a day.
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Cortissoz, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. “So Wags the World.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cortissoz/2/.
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Cortissoz, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. “So Wags the World.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cortissoz/2/.
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