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I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

August 18, 2008

I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.  Straightway I was ’ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,—
“Guess now who holds thee!”—”Death,” I said, But, there,
The silver answer rang, ”Not Death, but Love.”

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