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STERRA GAR ANAGKH' HEGUBA, 1295, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I gaze into her loved eyes, and behold
Last Line: "thus surely: "" ' fate is stern! '"
Subject(s): Fate


I gaze into her loved eyes, and behold
A terror there - ,
Death's vague monition and the pain untold
Of newly-learnt despair.
Late sunglow over the oak-woods by the sea,
A wind that hovers,
Dog-roses breathing, - these, methinks, must be
A spell o'er happier lovers.
For us a pang is in the wind; the waves
And woods' perfumes
Seem dimly eloquent of unseen graves
And sharp forgotten dooms.
Such love as ours is but to lose hearts' -ease
Beyond return :
How ends that play of sweet Euripides ?
Thus surely : - ' Fate is stern ! '




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