To a Day
Philip Bourke Marston
1850 to 1887
Track 1
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As sudden fire; a rapture for mine eyes.
But, where less joys are as forgotten things,
Of bright-wing'd Mirth, that stays its hour, and flies,
Kiss me, and guard me! hide me with thy wings.
Shall I praise these, O Day, and not praise thee
The year returns, but thee I see no more, —
Be with me then, to fight against my foes;
On fickle wings, to far-off, alien skies;
Filling it with the joy of joys to be ?
Gone as a man's first dream of goodness goes;
That made my roused, stung heart to swell and rise,
When I draw near to the pale, shadow-shore,
Shall I sing of the earth or of the sea? —
That giv'st me rare, sweet gifts, — yea, was to me
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