The Triumph of Love By Edmond Holmes |
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While yet my love was flowing, swift and wild,A mountain torrent, child of mist and snow,—
While yet its flood was clear and undefiled,—
Fate dammed it back and bade it cease to flow:
But not the less, descending from their source,
(Storm-fed, cloud-haunted, in the heights above,)
Behind the barrier wall that blocked their course,
Gathered and rose the baffled waves of love;—
Gathered and deepened, till the hills were glassed
In a blue lake, far-winding, calm and wide,
Whose mining weight of waters cleft at last
A second outlet for love's prisoned tide:—
Now, born anew, love's torrent seaward flows,
Flung from its pent-up passion's deep repose.
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