Saturday, March 24, 2007

Sydney Dobell—"He Loves and He Rides Away"

excerpt from HE LOVES AND HE RIDES AWAY
(England in Time of War, 1856)

Day and night, day and night,
And I saw no light,
Night and day, night and day,
And in my woe I lay
And dreamed the dreams they dream who cannot sleep:
My speech was withered, and I could not pray;
My tears were frozen, and I could not weep.

I saw the hawthorn rise
Between me and the skies,
I felt the shadow was from pole to pole,
I felt the leaves were shed,
I felt the birds were dead,
And on the earth I snowed the winter of my soul.

While I look on her I seem
Once again in the sweet dream
Of that enchanted day,
When, underneath the hawthorn tree,
I loved my love, and my love loved me:
And lost in love we lay,
And saw the happy ships upon the yielding sea.

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