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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

George Meredith (1828–1909)

The Year’s Sheddings

THE VARIED colours are a fitful heap:

They pass in constant service though they sleep;

The self gone out of them, therewith the pain:

Read that, who still to spell our earth remain.