Rudyard Kipling

Songs from Books (1912) Rudyard Kipling

CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die; But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth The Cities rise again. This season's Daffodil, She never hears, What change, what chance, what chill, Cut down last year's: But with bold countenance, And knowledge small, Esteems her seven days' continuance. To be perpetual. So Time that is o'er-kind, To all that be, Ordains us e'en as blind9 As bold as she: That in our very death, And burial sure, Shadow to shadow, well-persuaded, saith, " See how our works endure T' SONGS FROM BOOKS Songs from BooksJoseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 18