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Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that for temporal veil has on The souls of all men woven in unison, One fiery raiment with all lives inwrought And lights of sunny and starry deed and thought ... Love, that keeps all the choir of lives in chime; Love, that is blood within the veins of time.... Love, that sounds loud or light in all men’s ears, Whence all men’s eyes take fire from sparks of tears, That binds on all men’s feet or chains or wings; Love, that is root and fruit of terrene things; Love, that the whole world’s waters shall not drown, The whole world’s fiery forces not burn down; Love, that what time his own hands guard his head The whole world’s wrath and strength shall not strike dead; Love, that if once his own hands make his grave The whole world’s pity and sorrow shall not save ... Love that is fire within thee and light above, And lives by grace of nothing but of love.
Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that for temporal veil has on The souls of all men woven in unison, One fiery raiment with all lives inwrought And lights of sunny and starry deed and thought ... Love, that keeps all the choir of lives in chime; Love, that is blood within the veins of time.... Love, that sounds loud or light in all men’s ears, Whence all men’s eyes take fire from sparks of tears, That binds on all men’s feet or chains or wings; Love, that is root and fruit of terrene things; Love, that the whole world’s waters shall not drown, The whole world’s fiery forces not burn down; Love, that what time his own hands guard his head The whole world’s wrath and strength shall not strike dead; Love, that if once his own hands make his grave The whole world’s pity and sorrow shall not save ... Love that is fire within thee and light above, And lives by grace of nothing but of love.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 259 · printed citation: Swinburne (Tristram of Lyonesse). · compiler notes excluded
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