Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SYMBOL SEDUCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL


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THE SYMBOL SEDUCES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There in her old-world garden smiles
Last Line: For love, I leave love's haunted bower.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Seduction; Truth


THERE in her old-world garden smiles
A symbol of the world's desire,
Striving with quaint and lovely wiles
To bind to earth the soul of fire.

And while I sit and listen there,
The robe of Beauty falls away
From universal things to where
Its image dazzles for a day.

Away! the great life calls; I leave
For Beauty, Beauty's rarest flower;
For Truth, the lips that ne'er deceive;
For Love, I leave Love's haunted bower.





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