Denzil place a story in verse. By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] |
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Between this picture and one other one
The intervening space was half obscured,
But next, she saw a garden in the sun,
A cypress, all festoon'd with Banksia rose,
Emblem (she used to think) of Death and Love;
And then she saw herself, once more, as then
Clinging to Love and Life.
The intervening space was half obscured,
But next, she saw a garden in the sun,
A cypress, all festoon'd with Banksia rose,
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And then she saw herself, once more, as then
Clinging to Love and Life.
These memories,
As tho' two pictures, destin'd to be hung
Always together, in the after days
Seem'd painted on the panels of her heart,—
They haunted her until that solemn hour
Which comes to all, when, rudely torn aside,
Or gently, as with tender hand, withdrawn,
The curtain falls, which shrouded heretofore
The picture we may look at only once.
As tho' two pictures, destin'd to be hung
Always together, in the after days
Seem'd painted on the panels of her heart,—
They haunted her until that solemn hour
Which comes to all, when, rudely torn aside,
Or gently, as with tender hand, withdrawn,
The curtain falls, which shrouded heretofore
The picture we may look at only once.
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