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Warm, soft, motionless, As flowers in stillest noon before the sun, They lie three paces from him: such they lie As when he left them sleeping side by side, A mother’s arm round each, a mother’s cheeks Between them, flusht with happiness and love. He was more changed than they were, doomed to show, Thee and the stranger, how defaced and scarr’d Grief hunts us down the precipice of years, And whom the faithless prey upon the last.
Warm, soft, motionless, As flowers in stillest noon before the sun, They lie three paces from him: such they lie As when he left them sleeping side by side, A mother’s arm round each, a mother’s cheeks Between them, flusht with happiness and love. He was more changed than they were, doomed to show, Thee and the stranger, how defaced and scarr’d Grief hunts us down the precipice of years, And whom the faithless prey upon the last.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. S. Landor (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 270 · printed citation: W. S. Landor · subject: GRIEF
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