The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series/A Lament
OH, world! oh, life! oh, time!
Out of the day and night
70.
A Lament.
I.
On whose last steps I climb
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more—O, never more!
II.
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
No more—O, never more!