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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XCII
SIBYL'S HAND
There are five fingers in a hand, I think;
And Sibyl's hand hath neither less nor more:
To wit, a thumb, a common thumb, and four
Well ordered digits fleshed in white and pink,
As other digits are. Yet when I link
My hand in hers, as daily in a score
Of hands I link it, steals through every pore
A strange sweet feeling not with pen and ink
Definable,—so strange indeed and sweet
That I can scarce quit hold. Now tell me pray,
Good friends discreet of soul,—when next we meet
And Sibyl smiles, which is the better way—
Shall I refuse the hand stretched out to greet,
Or clasp and keep it ever and a day?
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