Picture Show (Sassoon collection)/Vision

by Siegfried Sassoon

For works with similar titles, see Vision.

VISION

 

I love all things that pass: their briefness isMusic that fades on transient silences.Winds, birds, and glittering leaves that flare and fall—They fling delight across the world; they callTo rhythmic-flashing limbs that rove and race...A moment in the dawn for Youth's lit face;A moment's passion, closing on the cry—'O Beauty, born of lovely things that die!'