Life and Phantasy by William Allingham: With frontispiece by Sir John E. Millais: A design by Arthur H. Hughes and a song for voice and piano forte |
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THREE SISTERS OF HAWORTH.
Three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne,Afar in Yorkshire wolds they live together;
Names that I keep like any sacristan;
The human registry of souls as pure
As sky in hermit waters on a moor,
Those liquid islands of dark seas of heather;
Voices that reach my solitude from theirs;
Hands that I kiss a thousand miles away,
And send a thousand greetings of my own—
But these, alas! only the west wind bears.
Nay, they have vanish'd. Hills and vales are lone
Where Earth once knew them. What is now to say?
Three strangers dead—'tis little to endure:
Great crowds of strangers vanish every day.
Yet will I see those gravestones if I may.
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