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| Subject: I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:56 am | |
| I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals old or young: And, as I mused it is his antique tongue, I saw in gradual vision through my tears The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years - Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, "Guess now who holds thee?" -"Death," I said. But there The silver answer rang -"Not Death, but Love."
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