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The sea gives her shells to the shingle	A
The earth gives her streams to the sea	B
They are many but my gift is single	A
My verses the firstfruits of me	B
Let the wind take the green and the grey leaf	C
Cast forth without fruit upon air	D
Take rose leaf and vine leaf and bay leaf	C
Blown loose from the hair	D
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The night shakes them round me in legions	E
Dawn drives them before her like dreams	F
Time sheds them like snows on strange regions	E
Swept shoreward on infinite streams	F
Leaves pallid and sombre and ruddy	B
Dead fruits of the fugitive years	G
Some stained as with wine and made bloody	B
And some as with tears	H
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Some scattered in seven years' traces	I
As they fell from the boy that was then	J
Long left among idle green places	I
Or gathered but now among men	J
On seas full of wonder and peril	A
Blown white round the capes of the north	K
Or in islands where myrtles are sterile	A
And loves bring not forth	K
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O daughters of dreams and of stories	L
That life is not wearied of yet	M
Faustine Fragoletta Dolores	N
F lise and Yolande and Juliette	M
Shall I find you not still shall I miss you	O
When sleep that is true or that seems	F
Comes back to me hopeless to kiss you	O
O daughters of dreams	F
	-
They are past as a slumber that passes	I
As the dew of a dawn of old time	P
More frail than the shadows on glasses	I
More fleet than a wave or a rhyme	P
As the waves after ebb drawing seaward	Q
When their hollows are full of the night	R
So the birds that flew singing to me ward	S
Recede out of sight	R
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The songs of dead seasons that wander	T
On wings of articulate words	U
Lost leaves that the shore wind may squander	T
Light flocks of untameable birds	U
Some sang to me dreaming in class time	P
And truant in hand as in tongue	V
For the youngest were born of boy's pastime	P
The eldest are young	V
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Is there shelter while life in them lingers	W
Is there hearing for songs that recede	X
Tunes touched from a harp with man's fingers	W
Or blown with boy's mouth in a reed	X
Is there place in the land of your labour	Y
Is there room in your world of delight	R
Where change has not sorrow for neighbour	Y
And day has not night	R
	-
In their wings though the sea wind yet quivers	W
Will you spare not a space for them there	Y
Made green with the running of rivers	W
And gracious with temperate air	Y
In the fields and the turreted cities	W
That cover from sunshine and rain	Z
Fair passions and bountiful pities	W
And loves without stain	Z
	-
In a land of clear colours and stories	W
In a region of shadowless hours	W
Where earth has a garment of glories	W
And a murmur of musical flowers	W
In woods where the spring half uncovers	W
The flush of her amorous face	W
By the waters that listen for lovers	W
For these is there place	W
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For the song birds of sorrow that muffle	A
Their music as clouds do their fire	Y
For the storm birds of passion that ruffle	A
Wild wings in a wind of desire	Y
In the stream of the storm as it settles	W
Blown seaward borne far from the sun	A2
Shaken loose on the darkness like petals	W
Dropt one after one	A2
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Though the world of your hands be more gracious	W
And lovelier in lordship of things	W
Clothed round by sweet art with the spacious	W
Warm heaven of her imminent wings	W
Let them enter unfledged and nigh fainting	B2
For the love of old loves and lost times	W
And receive in your palace of painting	B2
This revel of rhymes	W
	-
Though the seasons of man full of losses	W
Make empty the years full of youth	C2
If but one thing be constant in crosses	W
Change lays not her hand upon truth	C2
Hopes die and their tombs are for token	A2
That the grief as the joy of them ends	W
Ere time that breaks all men has broken	A2
The faith between friends	W
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Though the many lights dwindle to one light	R
There is help if the heaven has one	A2
Though the skies be discrowned of the sunlight	R
And the earth dispossessed of the sun	A2
They have moonlight and sleep for repayment	D2
When refreshed as a bride and set free	Y
With stars and sea winds in her raiment	D2
Night sinks on the sea	Y

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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