PAST AND FUTURE
by: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
- HE new hath
come and now the old retires:
And so the past becomes a mountain-cell,
Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell
In consecrated calm, forgotten yet
Of the keen heart that hastens to forget
Old longings in fulfilling new desires.
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- And now the Soul stands in a vague, intense
Expectancy and anguish of suspense,
On the dim chamber-threshold . . . lo! he sees
Like a strange, fated bride as yet unknown,
His timid future shrinking there alone,
Beneath her marriage-veil of mysteries.
"Past and Future" is reprinted
from The Golden Threshold. Sarojini Naidu. New York: John
Lane Company, 1916. |
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