Before Sunset

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1837 to 1909

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   Laughs at love in me and thee;
   But if here the flowers may see
   There are all things soft to sight;
   On the hither side of night,
Time that made us and will slay
   No good thing of thee and me?
   Lighted shade and shadowy light
In the lower lands of day
Lord as time was over death.
Flowers the rain has left to play.
   Time shall die, and love shall be
In the wayside and the way,
Shall these hours run down and say
One whole hour of amorous breath,
There is nothing that will stay,
   Hours the sun has spared to smite,