Ballads in Blue China by Andrew Lang
page 71 of 75 (94%)
page 71 of 75 (94%)
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Or intercepted, which is worse;
Where weddings false fond maids betray, And all the babes are changed at nurse. Oh, happy land, where things come right! We of the world where things go ill; Where lovers love, but don't unite; Where no one finds the Missing Will - Dominion of the heart's delight, Scribie, we've loved, and love thee still! ST. ANDREW'S BAY. NIGHT. Ah, listen through the music, from the shore, The "melancholy long-withdrawing roar"; Beneath the Minster, and the windy caves, The wide North Ocean, marshalling his waves Even so forlorn--in worlds beyond our ken - May sigh the seas that are not heard of men; Even so forlorn, prophetic of man's fate, Sounded the cold sea-wave disconsolate, When none but God might hear the boding tone, As God shall hear the long lament alone, When all is done, when all the tale is told, |
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