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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
8
SONNET V. A LAKE.
O soul serene! like some fair, placid lake
That flows on silently 'neath day and night,
What if my spirit, dazed with heat and light,
Drop, drowned in thee! shall a leaf falling make
Thy surface troubled, or a light wind shake
Thy tranquil depths that ever flow aright?
O cold and lovely lake! what tempest's might
Shall ever thy smooth currents part or break?
That flows on silently 'neath day and night,
What if my spirit, dazed with heat and light,
Drop, drowned in thee! shall a leaf falling make
Thy surface troubled, or a light wind shake
Thy tranquil depths that ever flow aright?
O cold and lovely lake! what tempest's might
Shall ever thy smooth currents part or break?
Thy great, calm beauty can reflect the sun;
The stars are mirrored in thee, and the moon
Beholds her image in thy waveless flow,
So cold, and yet so fair to look upon;
So cold that, even in love's hottest noon,
Thy depths untroubled are more cold than snow.
The stars are mirrored in thee, and the moon
Beholds her image in thy waveless flow,
So cold, and yet so fair to look upon;
So cold that, even in love's hottest noon,
Thy depths untroubled are more cold than snow.
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||