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Day is dying! Float, O Song, Down the westward river, Requiem chanting to the Day— Day, the mighty Giver. Pierced by shafts of Time he bleeds, Melted rubies sending Through the river and the sky, Earth and heaven blending; All the long-drawn earthy banks Up to cloud-land lifting: Slow between them drifts the swan, ’Twixt two heavens drifting. Wings half open, like a flow’r Inly deeper flushing, Neck and breast as virgin’s pure— Virgin proudly blushing. Day is dying! Float, O swan, Down the ruby river; Follow, song, in requiem To the mighty Giver.
Day is dying! Float, O Song, Down the westward river, Requiem chanting to the Day— Day, the mighty Giver. Pierced by shafts of Time he bleeds, Melted rubies sending Through the river and the sky, Earth and heaven blending; All the long-drawn earthy banks Up to cloud-land lifting: Slow between them drifts the swan, ’Twixt two heavens drifting. Wings half open, like a flow’r Inly deeper flushing, Neck and breast as virgin’s pure— Virgin proudly blushing. Day is dying! Float, O swan, Down the ruby river; Follow, song, in requiem To the mighty Giver.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- George Eliot (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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Page 249 · printed citation: George Eliot (The Spanish Gypsy). · compiler notes excluded
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