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LOVE SEQUESTERED by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH

Poet Analysis

First Line: THOUGH IN HER GREY UNCLOUDED EYES
Last Line: IN THAT WE TOOK IT SIDE BY SIDE.
Subject(s): LOVE;
THOUGH in her grey unclouded eyes
No cheat abode, nor compromise,
But truth in clearest outline shone,
And sin from honour stood alone;

Yet to be with her was to walk
A faëry shore, and list the talk
Of dropping streams, and nightingales,
And gods dissolved in inland vales.

And though we loved and lived remote,
Nor feat achieved deserving note,
Each trivial step was sanctified
In that we took it side by side.



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