Poem: “Mutation” by William Cullen Bryant

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Mutation

A sonnet

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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Mutation

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