"Out of the conquered Past Unravishable Beauty; Hearts that are dew and dust Rebuking the dream of Death; Flower of the clay down-cast Triumphant in earth’s aroma; Strings that were strained in rust A-tremble with Music’s breath!Wine that was spilt in haste Arising in fumes more precious; Garlands that fell forgot Rooting to wondrous bloom; Youth that would flow to waste Pausing in pool-green valleys— And Passion that lasted not Surviving the voiceless Tomb!"
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Quoted as an epigraph in W. S. Braithwaite, ed. A Book of Elizabethan Verse (1906)
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Arthur Upson
Arthur Wheelock Upson (10 January 1877 – 14 August 1908) was an American poet.
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