قراءة كتاب 'Twixt Earth and Stars Poems

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'Twixt Earth and Stars Poems

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المؤلف:

Hall Radclyffe

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

الصفحة رقم: 5

and I,

We are all alone, and very lonely.

THE PRAYER

There stood beside the road a shrine,

In whose quaint, vaulted shadow smiled

With eyes of tenderness divine,

The Blessed Virgin and Her Child.

And I, who wandered all alone,

Along a rough and weary way,

Felt that a great desire had grown

Within my heart, to kneel and pray.

But lo! my voice had lost the power

To utter words so deep and sweet,

And so, I breathed them in a flower,

And left it, at the Virgin's feet.

IF

If all the words you spoke, dear,

Were every one untrue,

There can be nothing good, dear,

In earth, or sun, or dew;

And all the world's a lie, dear,

Because of you.

If all the smiles you gave, dear,

Were only to beguile,

Why then there's nothing sweet, dear,

In any human smile;

And what we deem most fair, dear,

Is only vile.

If every kiss that lingered

Upon the lips you pressed,

Was but an empty token,

More fickle than the rest;

I wish that I had died, dear,

For death were best.

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