Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Ay. GUENDOLEN. Then thou sawest our Britain's heart and head Death-stricken. Seemed not there my sire to thee More great than thine, or all men living? We Stand shadows of the fathers we survive: Earth bears no more nor sees such births alive. MADAN. Why, he was great of thews--and wise, thou say'st: Yet seems my sire to me the fairer-faced - The kinglier and the kindlier. GUENDOLEN. Yea, his eyes Are liker seas that feel the summering skies In concord of sweet colour--and his brow Shines gentler than my father's ever: thou, So seeing, dost well to hold thy sire so dear. MADAN. I said not that his love sat yet so near My heart as thine doth: rather am I thine, Thou knowest, than his. |
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