Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers |
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[I saw, I saw the lovely child] |
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[I saw, I saw the lovely child]
I saw, I saw the lovely child,
I watched her by the way,
I learnt her gestures sweet and wild,
Her loving eyes and gay.
I watched her by the way,
I learnt her gestures sweet and wild,
Her loving eyes and gay.
Her name?—I heard not, nay, nor care,—
Enough it was for me
To find her innocently fair
And delicately free.
Enough it was for me
To find her innocently fair
And delicately free.
Oh cease and go ere dreams be done,
Nor trace the angel's birth,
Nor find the Paradisal one
A blossom of the earth!
Nor trace the angel's birth,
Nor find the Paradisal one
A blossom of the earth!
Thus is it with our subtlest joys,—
How quick the soul's alarm!
How lightly deed or word destroys
That evanescent charm!
How quick the soul's alarm!
How lightly deed or word destroys
That evanescent charm!
It comes unbidden, comes unbought,
Unfettered flees away,—
His swiftest and his sweetest thought
Can never poet say.
Unfettered flees away,—
His swiftest and his sweetest thought
Can never poet say.
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