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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Here we've wander'd some few hours]
[The metal sleeps in its hidden vein]
[We count men subject to mortality]
[If I must die when all is said and done]
[If we saw these things clear, what then?]
[A skeleton typifies Death.]
[What! am I too grown old? How days have hasted!]
[A mystic tracery of Stars]
[All things freely flow]
[O young Man! cast off cowardice]
[I hear the hum of earth, alive and merry]
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[Tho' bright with youthful bloom and grace]
Tho'
bright with youthful bloom and grace,
Eternal beauty hath no place
In this so much admirèd face.
True Beauty is the flow'r and sign
Of something inward far more fine;
Its source mysterious and divine.
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