The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
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To aim more faithfully.
VI. "They charged, they struck; both fell, both bled; Brain rose again, ungloved; Heart fainting smiled, and softly said, `My love to my Beloved.'" Heart and Brain! no more be twain; Throb and think, one flesh again! Lo! they weep, they turn, they run; Lo! they kiss: Love, thou art one! -------- Now the Land, with drying tears, Counts him up his flocks of years, "See," he says, "my substance grows; Hundred-flocked my Herdsman goes, Hundred-flocked my Herdsman stands On the Past's broad meadow-lands, Come from where ye mildly graze, Black herds, white herds, nights and days. Drive them homeward, Herdsman Time, From the meadows of the Prime: I will feast my house, and rest. Neighbor East, come over West; Pledge me in good wine and words While I count my hundred herds, |
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