ETERNITY
Reading edition
Men who are wise in secret lore Well argue and avow That fugitive Time shall be no more— No change, no after, no before, But one eternal Now. Yet I will dream Eternity Only a nobler Time, Where all the past shall gathered be And hours all of memory In each new hour chime: Triumphing easily over Death; Showing the sign of power Of one who goes with even breath, Who hurrieth not nor lingereth, Harmonious with his hour: A march, full-speed, from thought to thought, A music more sublime Than holy poet ever caught From magic choirs, and tuned and wrought In miracle of rhyme.