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A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
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Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.
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When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
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I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
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