Chastelard, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Have you no hair changed since you changed to Scot?
I look each day to see my face drawn up About the eyes, as if they sucked the cheeks. I think this air and face of things here north Puts snow at flower-time in the blood, and tears Between the sad eyes and the merry mouth In their youth-days. CHASTELARD. It is a bitter air. QUEEN. Faith, if I might be gone, sir, would I stay? I think, for no man's love's sake. CHASTELARD. I think not. QUEEN. Do you yet mind at landing how the quay Looked like a blind wet face in waste of wind And washing of wan waves? how the hard mist Made the hills ache? your songs lied loud, my knight, They said my face would burn off cloud and rain Seen once, and fill the crannied land with fire, Kindle the capes in their blind black-gray hoods-- I know not what. You praise me past all loves; And these men love me little; 't is some fault, I think, to love me: even a fool's sweet fault. I have your verse still beating in my head |
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