Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne Posthumous Poems — New Year's Eve… (1917)

Where a dead man hath for vassals Fame the serf and Time the slave.
Far from earth as heaven, the steadfast light withdrawn, superb, suspense,
Burns in dumb divine expansion of illimitable flower:
Moonrise whets the shadows' edges keen as noon-tide: hence and thence
Glows the presence from us passing, shines and passes not the power.
Souls arise whose word remembered is as spirit within the sense:
All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour.
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