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IN TIME OF MOURNING by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: RETURN,' WE DARE NOT AS WE FAIN
Last Line: MAY, 1885.
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE - NATURE OF; MOURNING; DEAD, THE; BEREAVEMENT;
'RETURN,' we dare not as we fain
Would cry from hearts that yearn:
Love dares not bid our dead again Return.

O hearts that strain and burn
As fires fast fettered burn and strain!
Bow down, lie still, and learn.
The heart that healed all hearts of pain
No funeral rites inurn:
Its echoes, while the stars remain,
Return.

May, 1885.



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