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THE BRIDEGROOM OF BEAUTY: THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM'S SONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a tree beside the river
Last Line: Runs from my embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


LIKE a tree beside the river
Of her life that runs from me,
Do I lean me, murmuring ever
In my love's idolatry.
Lo, I reach out hands of blessing;
Lo, I stretch out hands of prayer;
And, with passionate caressing,
Pour my life upon the air,
In my ears the siren river
Sings, and smiles up in my face;
But forever, and forever,
Runs from my embrace.

Spring by spring, the branches duly
Clothe themselves in tender flower;
And for her sweet sake as truly
All their fruit and fragrance shower.
But the stream, with careless laughter,
Runs in merry beauty by,
And it leaves me yearning after,
Lorn to droop and lone to die.
In my ears the siren river
Sings, and smiles up in my face;
But forever, and forever,
Runs from my embrace.

I stand mazèd in the moonlight,
O'er its happy face to dream;
I am parchèd in the moonlight
By that cool and brimming stream;
I am dying by the river
Of her life that runs from me,
And it sparkles by me ever,
With its cool felicity.
In my ears the siren river
Sings, and smiles up in my face;
But forever, and forever,
Runs from my embrace.





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