| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Ah! Yet Consider It Again |
| | | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–61) |
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| OLD things need not be therefore true, | |
| O brother men, nor yet the new; | |
| Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, | |
| And yet consider it again! | |
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| The souls of now two thousand years | 5 |
| Have laid up here their toils and fears, | |
| And all the earnings of their pain,— | |
| Ah, yet consider it again! | |
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| We! what do we see? each a space | |
| Of some few yards before his face; | 10 |
| Does that the whole wide plan explain? | |
| Ah, yet consider it again! | |
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| Alas! the great world goes its way, | |
| And takes its truth from each new day; | |
| They do not quit, nor can retain, | 15 |
| Far less consider it again. | |
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