The Smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes … - Richard Watson Gilder

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The Smile of her I love is like the dawn
Whose touch makes Memnon sing:
O, see where wide the golden sunlight flows—
The barren desert blossoms as the rose!

Richard Watson Gilder

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Richard Watson Gilder (February 8, 1844 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Gilder

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Heaven from the hopeless doubter
The true believer makes:
Against the darkness outer
The light God's likeness takes.

Not from the whole wide world I chose thee—
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me.

From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound,—
A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees and ground.
The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.

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