History & Politics
Looking Before and After
From My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889)
History & Politics
You say in front our Pitfalls wait
Agape to engulf us soon or late;
And open-eyed we face our fate!
We say your Pitfalls lurk behind,
And, driven backward, you will find
In falling you must go it blind!
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Codex Note
From the section "Last Lyrics" of My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889).
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Massey, Gerald. “Looking Before and After.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/272/.
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Massey, Gerald. “Looking Before and After.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/272/.
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