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The defence of Rome

[by E. J. Myers]
Myers, Ernest (1844-1921)

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The Defence of Rome.
  
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Lyric and Elegiac Poems.
  
WORDSWORTH.
  
A GARDEN FABLE.
  
AN EXILE.
  
SPONSA DEO.
  
STANZAS.
  
STANZAS.
  
THE DOUBTS OF GRIEF.
  
TO THE WEST WIND.
  
THE ARMOUR OF ACHILLES.

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SPONSA DEO.

It is enough; let be; she may not rise
To follow with thy feet: she may not hear
Love's words or thine, only because her ear
Is hearkening some diviner harmonies.
And in the liquid depth of those pure eyes
Some inward vision of a far-off sphere
Aloof, apart, for ever holdeth her,
A virgin consecrate to holier skies.
So leave her thus, that spirit dear and fair,
Nor wronging her nor wronged, for all thy pain;
But deem thee one who, caught up unaware
Into some place of Paradise, again
Earthward must fall once more, yet still may bear
Within him echoes of the angel-strain.
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