Time & Brevity
VII
From The Heptalogia
Time & Brevity
Think, what use, when youth's saddle galls bay's back or roan's,
To seek chords on love's keys to strike, other than his chords?
There's an error joy winks at and grief half condones,
Or life's counterpoint grates the C major of discords--
'Tis man's choice 'twixt sluts rose-crowned and queens age dethrones.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “VII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/66/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “VII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/66/.
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