Remembrance (de la Mare)

Remembrance written by Walter de la Mare

Poems (1906)

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The sky was like a waterdrop
     In shadow of a thorn,
Clear, tranquil, beautiful,
     Dark, forlorn.

Lightning along its margin ran;
     A rumour of the sea
Rose in profundity and sank
     Into infinity.

Lofty and few the elms, the stars
     In the vast boughs most bright;
I stood a dreamer in a dream
     In the unstirring night.

Not wonder, worship, not even peace
     Seemed in my heart to be:
Only the memory of one,
     Of all most dear to me.

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