Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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REALITY
Be but thy absence present, vigorous,Not spectral, nor of body to appal,
As in the night I watch the genius
Of the great barges flicker on the wall:
I waken to the sputter and the noise,
I feel the speed by the race-lightning dance:
So may thy brain, if it full sense employs,
Strike on me sharper than thy countenance.
Pass: I shall feel thy stroke upon the river;
Not thou, thy voyaging is my delight,
Not thou—those gifts of thine, thou being the giver,
Not thou—the vision of thee after sight;
Yet, by Apollo, blank were my despair
If losing I should fail to find thee otherwhere.
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