The town down the river : $b A book of poemsRobinson, Edwin Arlington
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The town down the river : $b A book of poems
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
American poetry -- 20th century
So Time will give us what we earn
Who flaunt the handful for the whole,
And leave us all that we may learn
Who read the surface for the soul;
And we’ll be steering to the goal,
For we have said so to our sons:
When we who ride can pay the toll,
Time humors the far-seeing ones.
Down to our nose’s very end
We see, and are invincible,--
Too vigilant to comprehend
The scope of what we cannot sell;
But while we seem to know as well
As we know dollars, or our skins,
The Titan may not always tell
Just where the boundary begins.
Transcriber’s Notes
• Italic text represtented with _underscores_.
• Small caps converted to ALL CAPS.
• Duplicated titles from title pages removed.
• Footnote relocated to the end of the relevant poem.
• Obvious typographic errors silently corrected.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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