Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | Vanity | | Anonymous |
| | | THE SUN comes up and the sun goes down, | |
| And day and night are the same as one; | |
| The year grows green, and the year grows brown, | |
| And what is it all, when all is done? | |
| Grains of sombre or shining sand, | 5 |
| Gliding into and out of the hand. | |
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| And men go down in ships to the seas, | |
| And a hundred ships are the same as one; | |
| And backward and forward blows the breeze, | |
| And what is it all, when all is done? | 10 |
| A tide with never a shore in sight | |
| Getting steadily on to the night. | |
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| The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, | |
| And a hundred streams are the same as one; | |
| And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream, | 15 |
| And what is it all, when all is done? | |
| The net of the fisher the burden breaks, | |
| And alway the dreaming the dreamer wakes. | | | | |
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