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Feda with Other Poems

Chiefly Lyrical. By Rennell Rodd ... With an Etching by Harper Pennington

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LYRICS.

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The form in which her spirit moved
Was like her spirit fair,
The dwelling of a soul that loved,
As innocent as prayer:
And but to know her was to pray
Those young unclouded eyes
Might never see the world's highway,
And only watch the skies.

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Though I be half of common clay,
And half of light sea foam,
Though you are near the sun-ray,
And the azure is your home,
The changing cloud renews its birth,
And when the tear-drops rain,
You cannot choose but come to earth
To get to heaven again.

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Two flowers in a world's garden,
In the dark shadow one,
And one through noons of springtide
Drawn up to see the sun.
Young flower of life, blow sun-ward
To skies of summer blue!
But I that dwell in the shadow,
What have I to do with you!