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AS I DID ROVE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: AS I DID ROVE IN BLINDED NIGHT
Last Line: A 'WILDERED BIRD.

As I did rove in blinded night,
Raying the sward, in slender ring,
A cirque I saw whose crystal light
Tranced my despair with glittering.

Slender its gold; in hues of dream
Its jewels burned, smiting my eyes
Like wings that flit about the stream
That waters Paradise.

Sorrow broke in my heart to see
A thing so lovely; and I heard
Cry from its dark security
A 'wildered bird.



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