Nature
For a Bell at Cornell University
From Heartsease and Rue
Nature
I call as fly the irrevocable hours,
Futile as air or strong as fate to make
Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers,
Even as men choose, they either give or take.
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Lowell, James Russell. “For a Bell at Cornell University.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/329/.
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Lowell, James Russell. “For a Bell at Cornell University.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/329/.
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