Change (Swinburne)

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A Century of Roundels by Algernon Charles Swinburne Change

This poem is a roundel originally published in the book A Century of Roundels.

But now life's face beholden
   Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow
With hope of gifts withholden
   But now.

   From time's full-flowering bough
Each bud spake bloom to embolden
   Love's heart, and seal his vow.

Joy's eyes grew deep with olden
   Dreams, born he wist not how;
Thought's meanest garb was golden;
   But now!