Here, where the world is quiet Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams of dreams.
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In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.Algernon Charles Swinburne
Our way is where God knows And Love knows where We are in Loves hand to-day.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the winds feet shine along the sea.
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We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, Thou art noble and nude and antique.
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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
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And beauty and length of days. And night, and sleep in the night.
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