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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LVIII
BY A GRAVE-SIDE
Here once again I stand, and once again
Recall thy béauty, O belovèd face,
And, O belovèd soul, thy gentle grace,
Thy flower of courtesy that knew not stain.
Thou art not here: yet is it sweetest pain
To think of thee in this the nearest place
Of earthly places to that spirit-space,
Which no man sees at all except he feign.
Forgive me that I may not often come
To mourn thee here, who mourn where'er I go,
Toiling to swell the Age's Beauty-sum,
Till in the lapse of Time's eternal flow,
Mine arm as thine is dead, my lips are dumb,
My head beside thy head is laid a-low.
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