Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To t… - Alexander Smith

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Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith (31 December 1829 – 5 January 1867) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School.

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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who hold an hour’s converse, so short, so sweet;
One little hour! And then, away they speed
On lonely paths, through mist and cloud and foam,
To meet no more.

We hear the wail of the remorseful winds
In their strange penance. And this wretched orb
Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world,
Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.

Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.

Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. - Alexander Smith

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