Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow What hast thou found in thine heart to sing.
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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
There lived a singer in France of old; By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold; There shone one woman, and none but she.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.
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For a day and a night and a morrow, That his strength might endure for a span; With travail and heavy sorrow, The holy spirit of man.
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