Before Sunset
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837 to 1909
Track 1
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Lighted shade and shadowy light
One whole hour of amorous breath,
Laughs at love in me and thee;
There are all things soft to sight;
Hours the sun has spared to smite,
In the lower lands of day
There is nothing that will stay,
Time shall die, and love shall be
On the hither side of night,
Lord as time was over death.
In the wayside and the way,
Shall these hours run down and say
No good thing of thee and me?
But if here the flowers may see
Time that made us and will slay
Flowers the rain has left to play.
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