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DISCORD by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

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First Line: UNRECONCILED BY LIFE'S FLEET YEARS, THAT FLED
Last Line: UNRECONCILED.
Subject(s): FAITH; ROUNDELS; TIME; BELIEF; CREED;

UNRECONCILED by life's fleet years, that fled
With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild,
Though two great spirits had lived, and hence had sped
Unreconciled;

Though time and change, harsh time's imperious child,
That wed strange hands together, might not wed
High hearts by hope's misprision once beguiled;

Faith, by the ligh from either's memory shed,
Sees, radiant as their ends were undefiled,
One goal for each -- not twain among the dead
Unreconciled.



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