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Poems and Ballads (third series)/In Time of Mourning

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3849568Poems and Ballads (third series) — In Time of MourningAlgernon Charles Swinburne

IN TIME OF MOURNING.

'Return,' we dare not as we fain
Would cry from hearts that yearn:
Love dares not bid our dead again
Return.

O hearts that strain and burn
As fires fast fettered burn and strain!
Bow down, lie still, and learn.

The heart that healed all hearts of pain
No funeral rites inurn:
Its echoes, while the stars remain,
Return.

May 1885.