Life and Phantasy by William Allingham: With frontispiece by Sir John E. Millais: A design by Arthur H. Hughes and a song for voice and piano forte |
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LOVE REMEMBERED.
Love, after long exilement from my breast,
Came as of yore last night, and gave to view
('Twas only in a dream) the face I knew
And loved so well. Ah me, that time was best!
O pure and perfect joy, when I possest
Thy soul in mine, when life was love of you,
And all the fairness of the world most true,
Love being God's truth, and chief among the rest!
Came as of yore last night, and gave to view
('Twas only in a dream) the face I knew
And loved so well. Ah me, that time was best!
O pure and perfect joy, when I possest
Thy soul in mine, when life was love of you,
And all the fairness of the world most true,
Love being God's truth, and chief among the rest!
Was I through ignorance or folly glad
In those lost days, not having found as yet
The secret of the world, which drives men mad,
With one cold poison-drop for remedy?
Or have the Powers of Darkness grip on me
Because I flung away mine amulet?
In those lost days, not having found as yet
The secret of the world, which drives men mad,
With one cold poison-drop for remedy?
Or have the Powers of Darkness grip on me
Because I flung away mine amulet?
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