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AVOWAL by JEAN MARIE MATHIAS P. A. VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

First Line: FOREST AND PLAIN ARE GONE
Last Line: AS NIGHTS BEREFT OF WIND.
Subject(s): NATURE; WEARINESS; FATIGUE;

FOREST and plain are gone,
And April's ancient spell ...
Give me thy lips; thereon
The woodland wind shall swell.

Lost is the sullen stir
Of Ocean's endless pain ...
Speak, and my soul shall hear
His surging tides again.

In royal woe I weep,
And dream of suns gone blind ...
O! bosom hide me deep
As nights bereft of wind.



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