Gerard & Isabel A Romance in Form of Cantefable. By Francis William Bourdillon |
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[Love, art thou more happy] |
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[Love, art thou more happy]
Love, art thou more happyDreaming or possessing?
Cometh e'er fulfilment
Glad as the forecasting
Of the dreams of lovers?
Clarisse in her chamber
Dreamed her dream of rapture,
Love and love's attaining.
Ah, poor shallow-hearted
Butterfly of pleasure!
In whose breast un worthy
Love the cruel master
Such a sting had planted!
This his keenest arrow,
Strongest, deepest-wounding,
Surely had found fitter
Mark and prize more precious
In a breast more noble,
In a heart unfathomed,
In a soul immortal!
Ah, poor day-lived dreamer,
All thy golden treasure
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What shall be the ending
If thy dream be broken,
If thy hope be scattered?
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