| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Mystery |
| | | George Francis Savage-Armstrong (b. 1845) |
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| YEAR after year | |
| The leaf and the shoot; | |
| The babe and the nestling, | |
| The worm at the root; | |
| The bride at the altar, | 5 |
| The corpse on the bier— | |
| The Earth and its story, | |
| Year after year. | |
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| Whither are tending, | |
| And whence do they rise, | 10 |
| The cycles of changes, | |
| The worlds in their skies, | |
| The seasons that roll’d | |
| Ere I flash’d from the gloom, | |
| And will roll on as now | 15 |
| When I ’m dust in the tomb? | |
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