Then came I to the shoreless shore of silence, Where never … - Conrad Aiken

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Then came I to the shoreless shore of silence,
Where never summer was no shade of tree,
Nor sound of water, nor sweet light of sun,
But only nothing and the shore of nothing,
Above, below, around, and in my heart

Conrad Aiken

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Conrad Potter Aiken (5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973) was an American writer and poet.

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And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight
To divide us forever.

His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;
He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?
Because he would not need it?

So, talking with my first wife,
At the dark end of evening, when she leaned
And smiled at me, with blue eyes weaving webs
Of finest fire, revolving me in scarlet, — Calling to mind remote and small successions
Of countless other evenings ending so, — I smiled, and met her kiss, and wished her dead

Then came I to the shoreless shore of silence, Where never summer was no shade of tree, Nor sound of water, nor sweet light of sun, But only nothing … - Conrad Aiken

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