IN MEMORY
by: Lionel Johnson
 H! fair
face gone from sight,
- With all its light
- Of eyes that pierced the deep!
- Oh human night!
- Ah! fair face calm in sleep!
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- Ah! fair lips hushed in death!
- Now their glad breath
- Breathes not upon our air
- Music, that saith
- Love only and things fair.
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- Ah! lost brother! Ah! sweet
- Still hands and feet!
- May those feet haste to reach,
- Those hands to greet
- Us where love needs no speech.
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'In Memory' is reprinted from An
Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London: Methuen
& Co., 1921. |
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