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By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Coleridge, Mary E. (1861-1907)

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CXXXIV

[O Darkness gather round]

O Darkness gather round;
Let no sweet sound
Scatter the silence of this one sweet hour.
I will not see the fairest,
I will forego the rarest,
Sooner than breathe upon Time's perfect flower.
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