Fetters
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
1844 to 1881
Track 1
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Rends from my heart itself a part of me.
All things with equal power my heart have won —
Captive of all fair things I feel or see;
A thousand ties too poignant or too brief
Each breath that change or trouble o'er them sheds
Truth by its light, the Unknown by its veil —
One smile soon robbed my eye of liberty,
In too much seeking love I found but grief;
My life now hangs upon these fragile threads,
And to each star a silken thread more frail.
And for my mouth the first kiss did as much.
A tenuous gold thread binds me to the sun,
I have but multiplied the means of pain;
Its velvet softness to the rose I touch;
The cadence chains me to the melody,
Bind me to things that love not back again.
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