Studies in Song by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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page 80 of 101 (79%)
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The flesh that has dust for its pillow
As wrecks have the sea. 12. When the ways of the sun wax dimmer, Wings flash through the dusk like beams; As the clouds in the lit sky glimmer, The bird in the graveyard gleams; As the cloud at its wing's edge whitens When the clarions of sunrise are heard, The graves that the bird's note brightens Grow bright for the bird. 13. As the waves of the numberless waters That the wind cannot number who guides Are the sons of the shore and the daughters Here lulled by the chime of the tides: And here in the press of them standing We know not if these or if we Live truliest, or anchored to landing Or drifted to sea. 14. In the valley he named of decision No denser were multitudes met When the soul of the seer in her vision |
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