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Fergus and the Druid
2023-12-06Fergus. This whole day have I followed in the rocks, And you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, First as a raven on whose ancient wings Scar...
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The Rose of the World
2023-12-06Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed aw...
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The Rose of Peace
2023-12-06If Michael, leader of God‘s host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven‘s door-post He would his deeds forget. Brood...
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The Rose of Battle
2023-12-06Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God‘s b...
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Meditations in Time of Civil War(一)
2023-12-06I Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man‘s flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And ...
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Meditations in Time of Civil War(二)
2023-12-06II My House An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower, A farmhouse that is sheltered by its wall, An acre of stony ground, Where the symbolic rose c...
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Meditations in Time of Civil War(三)
2023-12-06III My Table Two heavy trestles, and a board Where Sato‘s gift, a changeless sword, By pen and paper lies, That it may moralise My days out of t...
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Meditations in Time of Civil War(四)
2023-12-06IV My Descendants Having inherited a vigorous mind From my old fathers, I must nourish dreams And leave a woman and a man behind As vigorous of mind, ...
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Meditations in Time of Civil War(五)
2023-12-06V The Road at My Door An affable Irregular, A heavily-built Falstaffian man, Comes cracking jokes of civil war As though to die by gunshot were The fi...
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Meditations in Time of Civil War(六)
2023-12-06VI The Stare‘s Nest by My Window The bees build in the crevices Of loosening...