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HAVE YOU NOT OFT, IN THE STILL WIND by GEORGE DARLEY

Subject(s): IMMORTALITY;
Have you not oft, in the still wind ,
Heard sylvan notes of a strange kind,
That rose one moment, and then fell
Swooning away like a far knell?
Listen!-that wave of perfume broke
Into sea-music, as I spoke,
Fainter than that which seems to roar
On the moon's silver-sanded shore,
When through the silence of the night
Is heard the ebb and flow of light.
O shut the eye, and ope the ear!




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