Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON REVISITING CAMBRIDGE, AFTER A LONG ABSENCE ON THE CONTINENT (2), by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: I have a debt of my heart's own to thee
Last Line: On the dark-flowing hours I breast in fear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Cambridge University


I HAVE a debt of my heart's own to Thee,
School of my Soul! old lime and cloister shade,
Which I, strange suitor, should lament to see
Fully acquitted and exactly paid:
The first ripe taste of manhood's best delights,
Knowledge imbibed, while mind and heart agree,
In sweet belated talk on winter nights,
With friends whom growing time keeps dear to me, --
Such things I owe thee, and not only these:
I owe thee the far beaconing memories
Of the young dead, who, having crossed the tide
Of Life where it was narrow, deep, and clear,
Now cast their brightness from the further side
On the dark-flowing hours I breast in fear.





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