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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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[Oh fair and fleet with eager feet]

Oh fair and fleet with eager feet
The Greek his races ran,
Nor lost the boy his early joy
But triumphed into man:
Then tall and wise with graver eyes
He sought around, above,
Above, around, he sought and found
No sweeter thing than love.