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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FROM A QUIET PLACE
As when a maiden, looking through the leaves
That fence her garden from the common way,
Observes each passer-by, and softly weaves
A web of fiction, while her fancies play
Round each new figure; till she half believes
The tale so fashioned—tale which haply may
Be true, or if it pleasantly deceives,
No after-truth can dawn to counter-say:
So watch I from this world-sequestered nook
Time's heroes on the stage they tread so well,
Matching their motives with their outward look,
And run a single thread through all they do;
Nor would be told, what none is here to tell,
How much or little of my thought is true.
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