Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems

I SEE thee, gliding towards me with slow pace
Across the azure fields of Paradise,
Where thine each footstep makes a star arise.
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Down, down like a pale leaf dropping
Under an autumn sky,
My love dropped into my bosom
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O LIVING, living water,
So busy and so bright,
Aye flashing in the morning beams,
And sounding through the night;
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O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun,
Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers on her hair;
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THINK you, had we two lost fealty, something would not, as I sit
With this book upon my lap here, come and overshadow it?
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MY white archangel, with thy steadfast eyes
Beholding all this empty ghost-filled room,
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WAVY and bright in the summer air,
Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair,
And its roughest breath has scarcely curled
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Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
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GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain,
Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far,
In the long patience of inglorious war,
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SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold,
Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame;
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