Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? - Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Who knows but on their sleep may rise
Such light as never heaven let through
To lighten earth from Paradise?

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About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet.

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Alternative Names: Algernon Swinburne Algernon Charles Swiburne
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She hath wasted with fire thine high places,
She hath hidden and marred and made sad
The fair limbs of the Loves, the fair faces
Of gods that were goodly and glad.
She slays, and her hands are not bloody;
She moves as a moon in the wane,
White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy,
Our Lady of Pain.

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

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Fierce midnights and famishing morrows,
And the loves that complete and control
All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows
That wear out the soul.

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