The Silence of Love By Edmond Holmes |
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[O love! what art thou? Who hath seen thy face?]
O love! what art thou? Who hath seen thy face?Or caught the music of thy pulsing wings?
What heart hath felt the thrill of thy embrace,
The throb of rapture which thy message brings?
Is it in vain that through the rolling years
From dream to dream thy beauty lures us on?
That mocking echoes haunt our listening ears?
That when we think to clasp thee, thou art gone?
Or can it be that what is last is first;
The goal the source; life's aim life's fountain head;
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The gloom that gathers when thy light hath fled?
O then we find thee when our search is vain,
And feel thy kisses in our throes of pain.
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