English Poetry. Henry Van Dyke. The Sun-Dial at Wells College. Генри Ван Дайк.

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк)

The Sun-Dial at Wells College

The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it, sleeps the unborn hour
In darkness, and beyond thy power:
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands,--
The NOW on which the shadow stands.

Henry Van Dyke’s other poems:

1. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
2. The Wind of Sorrow
3. Spring in the South
4. The Window
5. Urbs Coronata

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