Verse for Today
I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, I shun the love that lurks in all delight — The love of thee —and in the blue heaven’s height, And in the dearest passage of a song, Oh, just beyond the sweetest thoughts that throng This breast, the thought of thee waits hidden yet bright; But it must never, never come in sightp I must stop short of thee the whole day long. 1 But when sleep comes to close each difficult day, When night gives pause to the long watch I keep, And all my bonds i needs must loose apart, Must doff my will as raiment laid away, N With the first dream that comes with the first sleep I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart. “ Renouncement,” by Alice Meynell, 1850-1924.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27383, 8 May 1950, Page 1
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