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XXIX. NEVER AGAIN
Is there no resurrection from the dead?—
Ah, what does this one simple sentence mean?
Never again to watch the grass wax green
In spring-time, and the early rose wax red.
Never again to mark the waving head
Of some fair tuft of cream-white meadow-sweet:
Never again the gold crowns of the wheat,
Nor yellow leaves by autumn breezes shed!
Ah, what does this one simple sentence mean?
Never again to watch the grass wax green
In spring-time, and the early rose wax red.
Never again to mark the waving head
Of some fair tuft of cream-white meadow-sweet:
Never again the gold crowns of the wheat,
Nor yellow leaves by autumn breezes shed!
This is the meaning of the simple word;—
Ne'er, after some poor thirty years or so,
To listen to the song of any bird,
Or hear the storm-struck sea's unquiet flow.
Never again to mark a rose's grace,
Nor the sweet smiling of a woman's face.
Ne'er, after some poor thirty years or so,
To listen to the song of any bird,
Or hear the storm-struck sea's unquiet flow.
Never again to mark a rose's grace,
Nor the sweet smiling of a woman's face.
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