Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps Poems

Have you felt the joy that is almost fear
As you face the ditch and are two lengths clear,
And you hear the thunder of hoofs in rear?
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There is a healing magic in the night,
The breeze blows cleaner than it did by day,
Forgot the fever of the fuller light,
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A wall and gulf for ever lie between,
Not all that we may do through love or wit
Can quite avail to pull away the screen,
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Can I make my feeble art
Show the burning of my heart?
Five-and-twenty years of schooling
Since you bore me, weak and puling,
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I love thee as I love the holiest things,
Like perfect poetry and angels' wings,
And cleanliness, and sacred motherhood,
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