449. The Choice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
b'DG Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Choice\\nby Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 \\u2013 1882)\\n\\nThink thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die.\\n Outstretch\'d in the sun\'s warmth upon the shore,\\n Thou say\'st: "Man\'s measur\'d path is all gone o\'er:\\nUp all his years, steeply, with strain and sigh,\\nMan clomb until he touch\'d the truth; and I,\\n Even I, am he whom it was destin\'d for."\\n How should this be? Art thou then so much more\\nThan they who sow\'d, that thou shouldst reap thereby?\\n\\n\\nNay, come up hither. From this wave-wash\'d mound\\n Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;\\nThen reach on with thy thought till it be drown\'d.\\n Miles and miles distant though the last line be,\\nAnd though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,--\\n Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.\\n\\nFirst aired: January 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'