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First Line: Let mine eyes the parting take
Last Line: Within, weird autumn's misery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


LET mine eyes the parting take,
Which my faint lips never can;
Moments such as these might break
Even the sternest heart of man.

Mournfully doth Joy's eclipse,
Shroud in grief Love's sweetest sign;
Cold the pressure of thy lips,
Cold the hand that rests in mine.

Once the slightest stolen kiss --
O, what rapture did it bring!
Like a violet's loveliness,
Found and plucked in early spring.

Now, no more my hand shall twine,
Rose wreaths, sweetest love, for thee;
Without, is summer's glorious prime,
Within, weird autumn's misery.







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