Time & Brevity
IX
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Time & Brevity
Sleep on: is the time not a season
For strong men to slumber and sleep,
And wise men to palter with treason?
And that they sow tares, shall they reap?
The wages of ages
Wherein men smiled and slept,
Fame fails them, shame veils them,
Their record is not kept.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “IX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/338/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “IX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/338/.
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