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# Page 161: "To Time" — A Poem This is a text page containing a complete poem titled "To Time." The poem is written in verse and addresses Time as a healing force that gradually alleviates human suffering. The speaker describes how Time has removed sorrow's sharp pain, allowing grief to diminish despite lingering sighs and tears. The poem uses an extended metaphor comparing emotional recovery to weather aftermath—just as rain continues after a storm passes and overcharged branches still drip, so too do faint echoes of severe sorrow persist even as acute agony fades. The verse employs formal rhyming couplets characteristic of Victorian poetry.
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161 TO TIME. Yes, gentle Time, thy gradual, healing hand Hath stolen from sorrow’s grasp the envenomed dart ; Submitting to thy skill, my passive heart Feels that no grief can thy soft power withstand ; _And though my aching breast still heaves the sigh, Though oft the tear swells silent in mine eye; Yet the keen pang, the agony is gone; Sorrow and [ shall part ; and these faint throes Are but the remnant of severer woes: As when the furious tempest is o’erblown, And when the sky has wept its violence, The opening heavens will oft let fall a shower, The poor o’ercharged boughs still drops dispense, And still the loaded. streams in torrents pour, conicloooks.comn