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IAMQVE VALE by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS

First Line: DIM IN THE MOON WIDE-WELTERING HUMBER FLOWED
Last Line: DREAM FOR THE NIGHT, BUT WITH THE MORN WILL GO.
Subject(s): HUMBER RIVER, GREAT BRITAIN;

DIM in the moon wide-weltering Humber flowed;
Shone the rare lights on Humber's reaches low;
And @3thou@1 wert waking where one lone light glowed
Whose love made all my bliss, whose woe my woe.
Borne as on Fate's own stream, from thine abode
I with that tide must journey sad and slow;
In that tall ship on Humber's heaving road
Dream for the night and with the morning go.

Yet thro' this lifelong dimness desolate,
O love, thy star within me fades not so;
On that lone light I gaze, and wondering wait
Since life we lost, if death be ours or no;
Yea, toward thee moving on the flood of Fate,
Dream for the night, but with the morn will go.



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