Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INHERITANCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN



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First Line: Ah! What magic was that, and what the mystery
Last Line: These the chance-come charm that bade me worship then?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund


AH! what magic was that, and what the mystery
In the Suffolk maiden's look that swiftly enchanted me,
And held me prisoner? Love that could never be,
For love for me had long since left his celestial tree --
Never from those boughs would the bright wings flash again.

Standing and trembling, I in silence shone to
The unknown divine look, and when she was gone too
The countenance-light yet mastered my being,
And all the garden round was lost to my seeing --
There was but this dynasty, where, gods, and when?

God-seeking, bold, laborious, earth's companions,
That long ago triumphing made the plough's dominions,
Ladies whose lovely faith the long years stormed not,
These all in one met, ghost-glowing, formed not
These the chance-come charm that bade me worship then?





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