Enigmas
By William Stanley Braithwaite
The joy of the world is in a man’s strength,
The sorrow of the world in a woman’s tears;
Beauty lives and dies in a second’s length,
And Time rolls on the years.
The battles of the world are in a man’s dream,
The altars of the world in a woman’s eyes;
Out of Eden follows one long far gleam
Till the last slow sunset dies.
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