Alaric Alexander Watts Biography

A cloud is on my heart and brow,
The tears are in my eyes,
And wishes fond, all idle now,
Are stifled into sighs;—
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The present moment's all our own,
The next, who ever saw! ~ Mickle.

Come, fill me up a brimming cup,
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Murmurings from within
Were heard, sonorous cadences, whereby
To his belief the monitor expressed
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I've roamed the wide world over,
From Indus to the Pole;
I've been a general lover,
And loved with all my soul;
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Meet me at sunset, the hour we love best,
Ere day's last crimson blushes have died in the west;
When the shadowless ether is blue as thine eye,
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