Mezzo Cammin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 to 1882
Half of my life is gone, and I have let
The years slip from me and have not fulfilled
The aspiration of my youth, to build
Some tower of song with lofty parapet.
Not indolence, nor pleasure, nor the fret
Of restless passions chat would not be stilled,
But sorrow, and a care that almost killed,
Kept me from what I may accomplish yet;
Though, half way up the hill, I see the Past
Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights, -
A city in the twilight dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights. -
And hear above me on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Mezzo Cammin
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