Before Sunset
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837 to 1909
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In the lower lands of day
On the side of night,
There is nothing that will stay,
There are all things soft to sight;
Lighted and shadowy light
In the wayside and the way,
Hours the sun has spared to smite,
Flowers the has left to play.
Shall these hours run down say
No good thing of thee and me?
that made us and will slay
Laughs at in me and thee;
But if here the may see
One whole hour of amorous breath,
shall die, and love shall be
Lord as time over death.
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