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THE RECALL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: RETURN, THEY CRY, ERE YET YOUR DAY
Last Line: RETURN.
Subject(s): HEAVEN; SOUL; PARADISE;

RETURN, they cry, ere yet your day
Set, and the sky grow stern:
Return, strayed souls, while yet ye may
Return.

But heavens beyond us yearn;
Yea, heights of heaven above the sway
Of stars that eyes discern.
The soul whose wings from shoreward stray
Makes toward her viewless bourne
Though trustless faith and unfaith say,
Return.



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