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First Line: Still that last look is solemn! Through thy rays
Last Line: Heirs of a purer day, with its unsetting star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring


STILL that last look is solemn! through thy rays,
O sun! to-morrow will give back, we know,
The joy to nature's heart. Yet through the glow
Of clouds that mantle thy decline, our gaze
Tracks thee with love half-fearful: and in days
When earth too much adored thee, what a swell
Of mournful passion, deepening mighty lays,
Told how the dying bade thy light farewell,
O sun of Greece! O glorious, festal sun!
Lost, lost! -- for them thy golden hours were done,
And darkness lay before them! Happier far
Are we, not thus to thy bright wheels enchained,
Not thus for thy last parting unsustained --
Heirs of a purer day, with its unsetting star.





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