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Betwixt Two Seas

Poems and Ballads (Written at Constantinople and Therapia). By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb]
  

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IN EXILE

Oh, rooks that look like English rooks,
And whirl against the grey!
Oh, skies that look like English skies,
Two thousand miles away!
Oh, eyes that look on rooks and skies,
Why do ye fill with tears?
Oh, mysteries, and memories,
And changes of the years!