Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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DREAM-TRAVEL
At night on Fancy's moon-lit main
I launch my shallop, like a thief
From doom of Justice fugitive,
If haply I may glide and gain
The land whereof sad hearts are fain,
Where lotos hangs a heavy leaf,
And amaranth is grown for grief,
For grief that is no longer pain;
And human tongues are like a tune
Heard faintly through the dusk of June,
As though in some unearthly grot,
Where Fate and Force and Fear are not,
A silver-throated choir did sing
To softest note of pshawm-playing.
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