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PARTING by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: AS FROM OUR DREAM WE DIED AWAY
Last Line: HOW FAR AWAY FROM PARADISE!
Subject(s): DEATH; FAREWELL; HEAVEN; DEAD, THE; PARTING; PARADISE;

AS from our dream we died away
Far off I felt the outer things:
Your wind-blown tresses round me play,
Your bosom's gentle murmurings.

And far away our faces met
As on the verge of the vast spheres:
And in the night our cheeks were wet,
I could not say with dew or tears.

O gate by which I entered in!
O face and hair! O lips and eyes!
Through you again the world I win,
How far away from Paradise!



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