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Title: Threnody [Life, sublime and serene when time had power upon it...] Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne [More Titles by Swinburne] OCTOBER 6, 1892
Life, sublime and serene when time had power upon it and ruled its breath, Suns that sink on the wan sea's brink, and moons that kindle and flame and fade, So, when night for his eyes grew bright, his proud head pillowed on Shakespeare's breast,
Far above us and all our love, beyond all reach of its voiceless praise, Strong as death is the dark day's breath whose blast has withered the life we see Strong as truth and superb in youth eternal, fair as the sundawn's flame
Fairer far than the morning star, and sweet for us as the songs that rang England glows as a sunlit rose from mead to mountain, from sea to sea, Not through tears shall the new-born years behold him, crowned with applause of men, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |