Gordon Bottomley - A Picture by Frederick Sandys lyrics

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Gordon Bottomley - A Picture by Frederick Sandys lyrics

Your immemorial stream is as your eyes, Languid to stillness, deep and dark as d**h: Its inner waters nothing wakeneth— No thrill of sorrow shatters in any wise Their heavy-lidded quiet; memories Swoon and are lost therein; all perisheth, Save the delight of d**h, without a breath To trouble those pools wherein oblivion lies. Rich is your ceaseless poppy-harvesting, As on your unremembered path you stray, Meet flowers for the sorry garlanding Of Proserpine reft from the world away (Ease and forgetting do such coronals bring, In their imperious odour's dreamy sway).