Modern Beauty
Arthur Symons
1865 to 1945
Track 1
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The joy of life, mingle to make me wise;
Of Beauty, and I burn that all may see
If the moth die of me? I am the flame
The sorrow of the world, and on my lips
I live, and am immortal; in my eyes
Beauty, and I have neither joy nor shame,
I am the torch, she saith, and what to me
I am Yseult and Helen, I have seen
But live with that clear light of perfect fire
My breath upon the glass; and men have said,
Age after age, in rapture and despair,
Which is to men the death of their desire.
Troy burn, and the most loving knight lie dead.
Love's poor few words, before my image there.
The world has been my mirror, time has been
Yet now the day is darkened with eclipse:
The torch, but where's the moth that still dares die?
Who is there still lives for beauty? Still am I
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