Invictus
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V. I am the Reaper 120 VI. Praise the generous gods 122 VII. Fill a glass with golden wine 123 VIII. We’ll go no more a-roving 124 IX. Madam Life’s a piece in bloom 126 X. The sea is full of wandering foam 127 XI. Thick is the darkness 128 XII. To me at my fifth-floor window 129 XIII. Bring her again, O western wind 130 XIV. The wan sun westers, faint and slow 131 XV. There is a wheel inside my head 133 XVI. While the west is paling 134 XVII. The sands are alive with sunshine 135 XVIII. The nightingale has a lyre of gold 136 XIX. Your heart has trembled to my tongue 137 XX. The surges gushed and sounded 138 XXI. We flash across the level 139 XXII. The West a glimmering lake of light 140 XXIII. The skies are strown with stars 142 XXIV. The full sea rolls and thunders 143 XXV. In the year that’s come and gone 144 XXVI. In the placid summer midnight 146 XXVII. She sauntered by the swinging seas 148 XXVIII. Blithe dreams arise to greet us 149 XXIX. A child 152 XXX. Kate-A-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams 154 XXXI. O, have you blessed, behind the stars 155 XXXII. O, Falmouth is a fine town 156 XXXIII. The ways are green 158 XXXIV. Life in her creaking shoes 169 XXXV. A late lark twitters from the quiet skies 161 XXXVI. I gave my heart to a woman 163 XXXVII. Or ever the knightly years were gone 164 XXXVIII. On the way to Kew 166 XXXIX. The past was goodly once 168 XL. The spring, my dear 169 XLI. The Spirit of Wine 170 XLII. A Wink from Hesper 172 XLIII. Friends. . . old friends 173 XLIV. If it should come to be 175 XLV. From the brake the Nightingale 179 XLVI. In the waste hour 178 XLVII. Crosses and troubles 181
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