Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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ON THE BEACH
When you lie there in such supreme content,
I feel a slight, a momentary pain,
Lest the strong heart so utterly unbent
Should take no more its ancient force again;
But, having fed on lotos-leaves, be fain
To feed so always, as on food god-sent,
And thus in Nature's paradise remain
A willing thrall to Nature's blandishment.
Dream on to-day, and fancy life a psalm
Best set to quiet melody of seas,
That meet on summer sands the summer breeze
To kiss the rising ripples into calm;
But when the morrow dawns, arise, appease
The natural craving of a strong right arm.
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