THE SILENT SHORE.
And thbttart' sleeping ori : that silent'shore;-'!' • -And- thou canst never, nover onoo/ return . . Not though- tho. starved heart strain to • . theo and yearn, . And the.-lame hands reach upward and lmplore, • ... ■ And tho, wrenched . hps • reiterate o'er and- ■ o!er.. ■ Ono-thought-wherewith the jntiless planets burn, . One lesson lifo.is all too sliort to learn, ■ One, simple; sob-of-.'the morel""no .... .more!" •.' ..VUy.life shall never, learn it,.como thou._bactc"; I.'v Oj.givei c tKp Jioit6,;all;this''dus't' ; hath;said! Doir.o; v let. the. stars rctraco their shining • . • - track, . ,i t .. . : Steal. from that solemn /midnight' of the dead, - Though as-a dream thou' canst but pass me. . ■ by, ' Come give, my heart/theVstrength to-break and die. . - - ■ Alfred Noyes, in tho "Westminster Gazette. ! i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 3
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113THE SILENT SHORE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 3
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