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Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments

By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers

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[O waving veil of shade and sun!]

O waving veil of shade and sun!
O dawns of dream and dew!
When life was high and heaven was one
With earth, and I with you!
When spring's primroses lit the wood,
Her hyacinths the glen,
And deep at heart we understood
The chief concerns of men:
For oft a fire from heaven will fall,
And oft the Soul replies,
And oft the unspoken Hope will call
From innocent blue eyes.