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TWO EPOCHS by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVERS BY A DIM SEA STRAND
Last Line: KNOW NOT SUN, NOR MOON, NOR STAR!
Subject(s): LOVE;

LOVERS by a dim sea strand
Looking wave-ward, hand in hand;
Silent, trembling with the bliss
Of their first betrothal kiss:
Lovers still, tho' wedded long!
(Time true love can never wrong!
Gazing -- faithful hand in hand,
O'er a darker sea and strand:
Ah! one lover's face is wan
As a wave the moon shines on;
But those strange tides stretched afar
Know not sun, nor moon, nor star!



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