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Sweet after showers, ambrosial air, That rollest from the gorgeous gloom Of evening, over brake, and bloom, And meadow, slowly breathing bare The round of space, and rapt below Through all the dewy-tassell’d wood, And shadowing down the horned flood In ripples, fan my brows and blow The fever from my cheek, and sigh The full new life that feeds thy breath Throughout my frame, till doubt and death, Ill brethren, let the fancy fly From belt to belt of crimson seas On leagues of odour streaming far, To where in yonder orient star A hundred spirits whisper “Peace.”
Sweet after showers, ambrosial air, That rollest from the gorgeous gloom Of evening, over brake, and bloom, And meadow, slowly breathing bare The round of space, and rapt below Through all the dewy-tassell’d wood, And shadowing down the horned flood In ripples, fan my brows and blow The fever from my cheek, and sigh The full new life that feeds thy breath Throughout my frame, till doubt and death, Ill brethren, let the fancy fly From belt to belt of crimson seas On leagues of odour streaming far, To where in yonder orient star A hundred spirits whisper “Peace.”
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 206 · printed citation: Tennyson · subject: EVENING
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