Time & Brevity
A Woman
From Poetical Works (1916): Songs of Myself
Time & Brevity
Time on her face has writ
A hundred years,
And all the page of it
Blurred with his tears;
Yet in his holiest crypt
Treasuring the scroll,
Keeps the sweet manuscript
Fair as her soul.
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