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First Line: He, who those secrets whispered -- he is dead
Last Line: Nor time, nor death, immoral youth can blight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Marston, Philip Bourke (1850-1887)


HE, who those secrets whispered -- he is dead --
No more the rose and lily shall confide
To him how faithless was the Wind that sighed
With fleeting love, rifled their bloom and fled;
The "Garden Fairies," by Titania led,
Ring no more chimes of rapture since he died;
And from unseen "Wind Gardens," where abide
The souls of blossoms, no sweet breath is shed.

His flowers and he have vanished: yet, who knows
Through what fair fields unwitnessed of the sun
He wanders, among blossoms red and white,
Fostered of Joy -- where never chill blast blows,
And the glad year is always just begun? --
Nor Time, nor Death, immoral youth can blight.





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