A perpetual memory and other poems: By Henry Newbolt: With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein |
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To E. C.
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To E. C.
Rivers when beheld afar
Often blue and golden are;
Nearer seen the shining flood
Turns to sluggish tides of mud.
Often blue and golden are;
Nearer seen the shining flood
Turns to sluggish tides of mud.
Dearest, when to you I seem
Such a dull unlovely stream,
Read, and think that even I
Can at times reflect the sky.
Such a dull unlovely stream,
Read, and think that even I
Can at times reflect the sky.
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