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Algernon Charles Swinburne : "A Leave-Taking"

Swinburne was born today, April 5, in 1837.

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Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.
Let us go hence together without fear;
Keep silence now, for singing-time is over,
And over all old things and all things dear.
She loves not you nor me as all we love her.
Yea, though we sang as angels in her ear,
         She would not hear.

Let us rise up and part; she will not know.
Let us go seaward as the grea…

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