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“ONLY THE STARS AND SEA”
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“ONLY THE STARS AND SEA”
From far beyond my death I seem now to regard thee:
Earth's flowers and grass, earth's hills and streams, for thee!
The sweet earth seems to have seized thy soul, and closed and barred thee
For evermore from me.
Earth's flowers and grass, earth's hills and streams, for thee!
The sweet earth seems to have seized thy soul, and closed and barred thee
For evermore from me.
I seem to feel the breath of sacred death flow round me:
The breath of August blossoms floats round thee.
Not thine hands, not thine hands to-day have loved and crowned me;
Only the stars and sea.
The breath of August blossoms floats round thee.
Not thine hands, not thine hands to-day have loved and crowned me;
Only the stars and sea.
The breath of death is sweet, but oh! thy love is sweeter,
Thou art more fair, O love,—I moan for thee.
In this strange land I faint. Wilt thou, than death's foot fleeter,
Hasten, O love, to me?
Thou art more fair, O love,—I moan for thee.
In this strange land I faint. Wilt thou, than death's foot fleeter,
Hasten, O love, to me?
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Only the stars and waves, and the black night whose breathing
Is cold beside the passionate breath of thee!
Only the clouds and stars, the far white waters seething:
Only the stars and sea!
Is cold beside the passionate breath of thee!
Only the clouds and stars, the far white waters seething:
Only the stars and sea!
1886.
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