The Death of Œnone, and Other Poems

A Voice Spake Out of the Skies

Alfred Tennyson


A VOICE spake out of the skies
To a just man and a wise—
‘The world and all within it
Will only last a minute!’
And a beggar began to cry
‘Food, food or I die’!
Is it worth his while to eat,
Or mine to give him meat,
If the world and all within it
Were nothing the next minute?


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