Sonett-Forum

Normale Version: ARE WE BUT SMOKE?
Du siehst gerade eine vereinfachte Darstellung unserer Inhalte. Normale Ansicht mit richtiger Formatierung.
ARE WE BUT SMOKE?

ARE we no more than little rings of smoke
Blown from the lips into the ambient air,
That slowly fade, or by a sudden stroke
Are shattered out of form ? Do we compare
With things so frail their only life is that
Which a breath gives them ? In the final sum
Are we but dregs that foul the wineless vat,
Sour leaves and litter ? or such frothy scum
As the spent waves deliver to the beach ?
Do such deep conscious beings suffer death
Irrevocably at the last ? Will each
Pass like a smoke when he resigns his breath,
Or once again through unconjectured fields
Follow a dream whose capture nothing yields ?