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WHERE? (1) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: WHERE IS MY LOVE
Last Line: LOVE LIES HERE.

Where is my love --
In silence and shadow she lies,
Under the April-grey calm waste of the skies;
And a bird above,
In the darkness tender and clear,
Keeps saying over and over, Love lies here!

Not that she's dead;
Only her soul is flown
Out of its last pure earthly mansion;
And cries instead
In the darkness, tender and clear,
Like the voice of a bird in the leaves, Love --
Love lies here.



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