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George Sterling - Afterward (BtB)
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Little I ask beside the lasting grace
And benediction of thy dear embrace —
That hour of dream which holds my heart in thrall.
Tho many voices of enchantment call,
One mercy would I beg from Time and Space—
The final contemplation of thy face
Till Lethe sunder and the darkness fall.
And ah! may then thy face, a changeless light,
Companion me thro' aeons of the night! —
Filling that realm with marvel and desire
And making death not altogether sleep,
But rather as a gloom whose altars keep
A timeless vision and a ghostly fire.
George Sterling
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/afterward-btb/
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