Poems and Ballads (Third Series) - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Nay, get thee away from us, far
Hence. THALASSIUS Then Shall no man's heart, as he raises A hymn to thy secret head, Wax great with the godhead he praises: Thou, God, shalt be like unto dead Men. PAN Grace I take not of men's thanksgiving, I crave not of lips that live; They die, and behold, I am living, While they and their dead Gods give Place. THALASSIUS Yea: Too lightly the words were spoken That mourned or mocked at thee dead: But whose was the word, the token, |
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