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— John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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The Bridge

17 lines
Edward Thomas
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HAVE come a long way to-day:On a strange bridge alone,Remembering friends, old friends,I rest, without smile or moan,As they remember me without smile or moan. All are behind, the kindAnd the unkind too, no moreTo-night than a dream. The streamRuns softly yet drowns the Past,The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past. No traveller has rest more blestThan this moment brief betweenTwo lives, when the Night's first lightsAnd shades hide what has never been,Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been.
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