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THE MASTER-WOOER by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE

First Line: I SAW THY HEART TO-DAY
Last Line: THE ROCK SHALL YIELD HERSELF TO HIM FOR AYE.
Subject(s): HEARTS; MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; PERSEVERANCE; STONES; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS; GRANITE; ROCKS;

@2I@1 SAW thy heart to-day:
A rock against whose breast the ceaseless spray
Dashed itself into madness, woe and death,
Like one that all in vain beleaguereth.

Ah, but the @3ceaselessness!@1
The sea that dieth liveth none the less:
After a thousand years must come a day
The rock shall yield herself to him for aye.



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