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The Flood of Years A mighty Hand, from an exhaustless Urn, Pours forth the never-ending Flood of Years, Among the nations. How the rushing waves Bear all before them! On their foremost edge, And there alone, is Life. The Present there Tosses and foams, and fills the air with... Poet: William Cullen Bryant	“Three years she grew” Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower On earth was never sown: This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. “Myself will to my darling be Both law and... Poet: William Wordsworth	Song of One Eleven Years in Prison WHENE’ER with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I ’m rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- niversity of Gottingen, niversity of Gottingen. [Weeps and pulls out... Poet: George Canning	In Ebon Box, when years have flown In Ebon Box, when years have flown To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there! To hold a letter to the light — Grown Tawny now, with time — To con the faded... Poet:
The harm of Years is on him — The harm of Years is on him — The infamy of Time — Depose him like a Fashion And give Dominion room. Forget his Morning Forces — The Glory of Decay Is a minuter Pageant Than least... Poet:	The Months have ends — the Years — a knot — The Months have ends — the Years — a knot — No Power can untie To stretch a little further A Skein of Misery — The Earth lays back these tired lives In her mysterious Drawers — Too tenderly, that any... Poet:	The Pile of Years is not so high The Pile of Years is not so high As when you came before But it is rising every Day From recollection's Floor And while by standing on my Heart I still can reach the top Efface the mountain with your face... Poet: