Poems, Series 3: III. They say that 'time assuages,'
III. They say that 'time assuages,'
THEY say that 'time assuages,' --
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.