| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Immortality |
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| SO when the old delight is born anew, | |
| And God reanimates the early bliss, | |
| Seems it not all as one first trembling kiss | |
| Ere soul knew soul with whom she has to do? | |
| O nights how desolate, O days how few, | 5 |
| O death in life, if life be this, be this! | |
| O weigh’d alone as one shall win or miss | |
| The faint eternity which shines therethro’! | |
| Lo, all that age is as a speck of sand | |
| Lost on the long beach where the tides are free, | 10 |
| And no man metes it in his hollow hand | |
| Nor cares to ponder it, how small it be; | |
| At ebb it lies forgotten on the land | |
| And at full tide forgotten in the sea. | |
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