In Time of Mourning
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837 to 1909
"Return," we dare not as we fain
Would cry from hearts that yearn:
Love dares not bid our dead again
Return.
O hearts that strain and burn
As fires fast fettered burn and strain!
Bow down, lie still, and learn.
The heart that healed all hearts of pain
No funeral rites inurn:
Its echoes, while the stars remain,
Return.
May 1885
Algernon Charles Swinburne's In Time of Mourning
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