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Lyrics of Nature, Art and Love. By Francis William Bourdillon

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A Rippled Stone

Sands, forsaken, keep
The impress of sea-kisses;
As lovers' lips in sleep
Repeat the day's caresses.
And often hearts hard-grown,
Deep-hidden and discerned not,
Have kept the tale in stone
Of love-tides that returned not.