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AMORIS EXSUL: 2. LOSS by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT HAVE I LOST IN LOSING YOU
Last Line: AND LIFE ITSELF, IN LOSING YOU!
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;

What have I lost in losing you?
Only the savour of all things.
In the same sky the same bird sings,
The same clouds darken in the blue;
Only, all's changed, in losing you!

In losing you, I lose the care
That held me fettered all my days;
I see before me bright new ways
That beckon me, I know not where;
And yet I do not greatly care.

For I have lost, in losing you,
Not you alone, but my own youth,
My hope in fame, my faith in truth,
And all I was to be and do,
And life itself, in losing you!



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