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Poem by Francis Turner Palgrave Brecon Bridge LOW to himself beneath the sun, While soft his dusky waters run, With ripple calm as infant’s breath, An ancient song Usk murmureth, By the bridge of Aberhonddu. ’T is not of deeds of old, the song, Llewellyn’s fate, or Gwalia’s wrong; But how, while we have each our day And then are not, he runs for aye. He sees the baby dip its feet Within his limpid waters sweet; And hears when youth and passion speak What strikes to flame the maiden’s cheek. Then manhood’s colors tamed to gray, With his fair child the father gay: And then Old Age, who creeps to view The stream his feet in boyhood knew. From days before the iron cry Of Roman legions rent the sky, Since man with wolf held brutish strife, Usk sees the flow and ebb of life. As mimic whirlpools on his face, Orb after orb, each other chase, And gleam and intersect and die, Our little circles eddy by. But those fair waters run for aye While to himself,—Where’er they stray, All footsteps lead at last to Death, His ancient song, Usk murmureth By the bridge of Aberhonddu. Francis Turner Palgrave Francis Turner Palgrave's other poems: 1209 Views |
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