Tuesday 1 April 2014

About "In Time", a poem by Robert Graves


AboutWhen I was younger, Robert Graves was one of my favourite poets and this was one of his poems that I specially loved.

                                              IN TIME
                       In time, all undertakings are made good,
                       All cruelties remedied,
                       Each bond resealed more firmly than before-
                       Befriend us, Time, Love's gaunt executer!

I love the brevity, the spareness of thought, the encapsulation of so much in so little.

I would love to think that it was true and maybe it is, 'sometimes', but in the light of my last post perhaps I would add, if not 'in time', then, from my perspective, most certainly 'beyond time', it will be true.