本书摘录:
Dedication
TO
MY SISTERS IN AUSTRALIA
ANNIE AND FRANCES
The sea beats in at Blakeney-- Beats wild and waste at Blakeney; O‘er ruined quay and cobbled street, O‘er broken masts of fisher fleet, Which go no more to sea. The bitter pools at ebb-tide lie, In barren sands at Blakeney; Green, grey and green the marshes creep, To where the grey north waters leap By dead and silent Blakeney. And Time is dead at Blakeney-- In old, forgotten Blakeney; What care they for Time‘s Scythe or Glass; Who do not feel the hours pass, Who sleep in sea-worn Blakeney? By the old grey church in Blakeney, By quenched turret light in Blakeney, They slumber deep, they do not know, If Life‘s told tale is Death and Woe; Through all eternity. But Love still lives at Blakeney, ‘Tis graven deep at Blakeney; Of Love which seeks beyond the grave, Of Love‘s sad faith which fain would save
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