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Idle Verse: A Poetry Feature

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G. Lawrence in the Book Nook
Jun 25, 2026
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Legacy

What for? When for?

Why and how and who,

The tide and rain come always

The sun it rises too.



And one day all for us will end,

Earth to become, or ash to fall,

And all our ceaseless worrying

Will matter not at all.



These faithless day of hope,

These last moments of the found,

These times we think so voiceless,

Ring with future …

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