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Mutation. - A Sonnet.

By William Cullen Bryant

Topics: classic

They talk of short-lived pleasure, be it so,     Pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain     Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.     The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;     And after dreams of horror, comes again     The welcome morning with its rays of peace;     Oblivion, softly wiping out the stain,     Makes the strong secret pangs of shame to cease:     Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase     Are fruits of innocence and blessedness:     Thus joy, o'erborne and bound, doth still release     His young limbs from the chains that round him press.     Weep not that the world changes, did it keep     A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

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About William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was an American poet and journalist. His poem "Thanatopsis" (1817) was the first major American poem. He edited the New York Evening Post for 50 years and was a champion of American poetry.

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