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1861–1929

XLII

Bliss Carman

O heart of insatiable longing, What spell, what enchantment allures thee Over the rim of the world With the sails of the sea-going ships?

And when the rose-petals are scattered At dead of still noon on the grass-plot, What means this passionate grief,— This infinite ache of regret?

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