By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.

Algernon Charles Swinburne
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  1. Today will die tomorrow.

  2. From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star...

  3. But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

  4. For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit there of dust; No thorns go as deep as the rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And...

  5. Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without...

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