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IN THE HEART OF THE WOODS by ALFRED NOYES

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First Line: HEART OF ME, HEART OF ME, HEART OF ME, BEATING BEATING AFAR
Last Line: AY, AND THE PASSIONATE HEART IT IS OF YOU AND ME.
HEART of me, Heart of me, Heart of me, beating, beating afar,
In the glamour and gloom of the night, in the light of the rosy star,
In the cold sweet voice of the bird, in the sigh of the
flower-soft sea,
Sure the Heart of the woods is the Heart of Eternity,
Ah! and the passionate heart it is of you and me.

Love of me, Love of me, linking the world and the golden moon,
And the flowery moths that flutter through the scented heat of noon,
And the soul of man with beauty, youth with the dreaming night
Of stars and flowers and waters and breasts of glimmering white,
And streaming hair of fragrant dusk and flying limbs of lovely light.

Life of me, Life of me, shining in sun and cloud and wind,
In the dark eyes of the fawn and the eyes of the hound behind,
In the leaves that lie in the seed unsown, and the dream of
the babe unborn,
I feel you pulsing like flame of blood through flower and
root and thorn,
I feel you burning the boughs of night to kindle the fires of morn.

Soul of me, Soul of me, yearning wherever a laverock sings
Or the leafy gloom is winnowed by the whirr of linnets' wings,
Or the spray of the foam-bow rustles in the white dawn of the moon,
And mournful billows moan aloud, Come soon, soon, soon,
Come soon, oh Death, with the heart of love and the secret
of the rune.

Heart of me, Heart of me, Heart of me, beating, beating afar,
In the green gloom of the night, in the light of the rosy star,
In the cold sweet voice of the bird, in the sigh of the
flower-soft sea,
Sure the Heart of the woods is the Heart of the world and
the Heart of Eternity,
Ay, and the passionate Heart it is of you and me.



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