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SAD SONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love once kiss'd me
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius


I.
LOVE once kiss'd me,
Unfolded his wings, and fled.
Hath friendship miss'd me ?
Is faith in all friendship dead ?
If a spell could summon
These phantoms that come and go,
Of men and women,
Their very selves to show,
I might find (alas me!)
My seeking both night and day.
But I pass them, they pass me,
And each on a lonely way.


II.
Soul, art thou friendless,
A loser, sorrowful, weak ?
Life is not endless,
Death is not far to seek.
Thou sailest ever,
Each moment, if sad or kind,
Down the great river;
It opens, it closes behind;
Far back thou see-est
The mountain- tops' faint azure;
Below, as thou flee-est,
The ripple, the shadow's erasure.


III.
Why dost thou, weeping,
Stretch forth thine arms in vain ?
It breaks thy sleeping;
O drop into trance again.
In dreams thou may'st go where
Child's Island is flowery grass'd,
Deep-skied, it is nowhere
Save in the Land of the Past.
Time is dying,
The World too; forget their moan;
The sad wind sighing
Let murmur, this alone.






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